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Selective Insurance

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Selective Insurance reviews

2.7

32% would recommend to a friend

(434 total reviews)
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John Marchioni

41% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Selective Insurance has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 434 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Selective Insurance employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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434 reviews
1.0
Sep 17, 2024

Incompetent new regime

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Pros

Co workers were pleasant even when overworked and abused by management

Cons

All praise goes to VP’s while all they care about is expense. When effort understaffed developers get the blame. When developers work 60 hours a week to meet deadlines VP takes credit. Old Ceo and Cfo knew what they were doing. New ceo is lost and just does what told by cio

1.0
Sep 9, 2024

Horrible, Toxic Working Environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

One of the only major companies (outside of Thorlabs) to work for in Newton, New Jersey that pays okay and has benefits.

Cons

Never have I worked somewhere where you constantly have to look over your shoulder and walk on eggshells. The people who thrive here are brown-nosing sycophants, who look for any opportunity to throw someone under the bus to make themselves look better. I can't speak for all departments, but the flood insurance department was terrible to work in. Training is not very thorough and they throw you into the fire and then get upset when you don't excel immediately. Management does not trust anyone to do their job and it's obvious with the sheer amount of micromanaging they do. They even time your bathroom breaks and lunch breaks to make sure you aren't stealing company time. Additionally, I witnessed two coworkers of mine being bullied by the manager of the division, who is incredibly short-tempered and unprofessional--many conversations were had with HR and somehow this person is STILL in the flood department. This manager also became angry and took it personally when another individual gave notice due to the toxic work environment and the manager proceeded to tell this person "good luck working at Walmart then". Additionally, one of my friends who works remotely for Selective was reported by a coworker for having her baby in the background of a video meeting. That is truly despicable behavior, especially when my friend has excelled in her role for many years. Overall, unless you are literally about to be homeless, I would not recommend working here. There are many insurance companies that offer remote roles these days.

1.0
Sep 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

If you don’t have family you can spend all day

Cons

Never appreciates work , management takes all credit , recruits new folks for leadership looks beneath existing who leave eventually, leadership not understands technical challenges, there are too many nuances in their unique worst systems, for leadership they don’t exist , that’s a big issue reason for failures.

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