Symetra reviews

4.0

73% would recommend to a friend

(483 total reviews)

Margaret Meister

88% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Symetra has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 483 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Symetra 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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483 reviews
3.0
Oct 14, 2013

One word: Neutral

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work life balance. Flexible hours. Somewhat interesting work. Very "polite" company to work for and good people to work with.

Cons

Morale is low in many departments. Higher ups don't seem to have it all together and send very mixed messages. Not a lot of trust.

1.0
Sep 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They pay me every two weeks.

Cons

Worked here quite a long time and the hallway whispering is driving me crazy. Perks are slowly being eroded. Good people are leaving or "disappearing" on a regular basis. IT infrastructure is old and even newer systems are useless. Me and many others have a strong suspicion that the employee survey is not as anonymous as they make it out to be.

1.0
Sep 18, 2013

Nice people but bad management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great location and some great people who are fully vested in providing excellent service to their customers.

Cons

Management and HR don't really have a clue how to get the best from their personnel and so resort to reading books about "trust" in order to try and gain some! Managers have so little actual work to do that they either spend their time getting in their employees way or in meetings dreaming up methods of getting in their employees way. Let people do their job! Favoritism is rife and difficult to overcome for newcomers into the business. As a consequence people are leaving and seeing this even seasoned employees are starting to walk.

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