SelectQuote reviews

3.3

54% would recommend to a friend

(1,894 total reviews)
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Tim Danker

66% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

SelectQuote has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,894 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SelectQuote employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Dec 7, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Initial training is good... but faulters when it is most important. Benefits are okay, and they will get you licensed in numerous states and certified with multiple carriers, but you are selling your soul to the devil in exchange.

Cons

I come from a recruiting and sale training background, so I can smell the BS from a mile away, but I rode it out because recruiting is "selling" employment. Talent acquisition is tough in an age when work ethic is no longer plentiful, I get it. HOWEVER, when they hide the true compensation for the job until training is nearly complete and you have invested hundreds of dollars into licensing and certifications... well let's just say, compensation is not quite what the recruiters said it would be. There are all these secondary and ancillary products you have to push and certain numbers to reach before you can attain any real income. It is pretty much a work-from-home call center. We were told that we would only handle inbound calls - NO COLD CALLING - well that is bulls... It is ALL cold calling. Another team makes the calls, convinces the "caller" to stay on the line, and then they are transferred and you are supposed to sell them on a new policy. Then, half of your sales commissions will fall off due to cancellations after the fact. The people were duped into enrolling and many unenroll or change to a different carrier during AEP (Oct 15 - Dec 7). I was thrown into retention. I have had to deal with the backlash of these practices. They are absolutely deceitful. I cannot stand to be lied to or treated as if I am "property" they control. I had enough of the lies and calling them on their BS. A group of us could not finish our training on time due to certain recruiters and onboarding agents who gave incorrect information to use on the licensing process. So, those of us who had passed our resident state license exams and were awaiting final resolution from the state we thrown into CCA and promised we would return to sales training following AEP. When I questioned my supervisor about returning to sales training I was told initially we were staying in CCA. Not what we were told originally and nor was it what I signed on for. After a full day of deliberations on the topic, and being told that I was pretty much the property of the company and said company would dictate where I worked, I told them I needed an RMA for the return of their tech. I am nobody's property and I won't be dictated to nor micromanaged. My numbers speak for themselves and I had had enough. After I posted my text conversations with management to the group chat so everyone could see what was going on, they IMMEDIATELY announced that the would-be agents will return to training on Wednesday the 8th. Once I called them on their BS... yet again... and exposed their lies and behind closed doors attitude, they did damage control and I am now out. I have too many years under my belt being self-employed to put up with being treated like a child. I call it as I see it and I have called them out too many times over a short period of time and they were wrong on every occasion.

1.0
Nov 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Management and coworkers are always out to lift you up and help each other.

Cons

Don't work here if you're looking for financial security, they will constantly change your comp plan and not for the better. The pay the recruiters say the 'average' person makes is horribly exaggerated so when they say average really translates to the top 5 of the company. If you're in enrollment they actually take money out of your commission check for every time you send back a lead to a sales agent because the agent didn't know what they were doing and tried to sell to a client when there was no valid election period or the client had dementia and didn't even know their own birthday. They used to only hire sales agents twice a year, and train them thoroughly. Now they hire sales agents every month and give them two weeks worth of training at best--Medicare is complicated and nobody is going to know everything they need to know in that short period of time. In the end you're punished for being compliant with CMS which makes no sense. To make it better, the software they use, SelectCare, crashes all the time and like to make last minute changes to the software so it's nice and buggy right when AEP starts and you lose money because you might not be able to pull leads or open an application. I used to really believe in this company, I even used to help recruit in the summer during the slow season but the following year I didn't want to recruit again because I felt I would just be lying to potential candidates if I did. They keep over hiring in each department so it keeps getting harder and harder to make money and have enough leads to go around. Don't walk, run.

2.0
Nov 5, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I define a pro as something that is uniquely good about a company. Anything good that you find at SQ, you can find elsewhere, but most likely in a more healthy environment.

Cons

1. Base-Pay (40k) 2. Bonus structure (can change monthly) 3. Reporting (often does not come out until mid-end of month) 4. Accountability (upper management takes no accountability for the instability in the bonus structure, the reporting, or the environment). 5. They will take your top performers without notice and put them on another team.

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