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The Hanover Insurance Group

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The Hanover Insurance Group reviews

3.9

75% would recommend to a friend

(993 total reviews)
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John C. Roche

91% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

The Hanover Insurance Group has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 993 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Hanover Insurance Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.7 stars).

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993 reviews
2.0
Nov 14, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits are good. Colleagues are pretty cool. They pay for your Property and Casualty course and license.

Cons

Extremely micro-managed environment. Every ISP has a one on one and side by side EVERY week. One on one consist of meetings about your call metrics with a manager for 45 min. Side by sides is where the manager listens in on your calls and shadows your work flow for 30 min. The workload is extreme for the pay. Heavy inbound and outbound call flow due to high turnover or firing of employees. You will be working with 13 systems standard minimum for each call. You also will have access to many more that you would have to remember if you need it out of the blue. You have to meet Service metics that consist of about 5 components. You're also required to meet sales goals. When they first pitch the position to you they will downplay the sales. They'll say it's not that hard to obtain the sales goals, that's a lie. No one really ever hits the sale goals. If you do hit the sales goals they'll find a way to say you're sales aren't valid. They will also make it seem as if sales aren't a big component of the job. It is the BIGGEST component of your job despite what your customer is calling in about. If the customer just lost a spouse or any realative for that matter you need to unethically try to up-sell them or cross-sell to them although they're on a even smaller fixed income now. Breaks only 10 min and lunch is 45 min in corporate. NO GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES at all in Atlanta, per corporate. So if you're in the Atlanta office, get your experience and RUN.

2.0
Apr 19, 2016

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Recommend
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Pros

Nice people to work with, decent benefits, salary was acceptable.

Cons

The claims atmosphere is toxic and production based. The company is incredibly lean and fast paced in this department. Be prepared to severely compromise the quality of your work in place of speed but still be held accountable for your mistakes. Expectations require working beyond a 40 hour work week- not family friendly in this regard. Lack of skill and qualifications in their new hires puts extra pressure on experienced employees. Managers are similarly inexperienced.

2.0
Feb 22, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great to work with other recent college grads, you'll make a lot of friends Decent pay out of college Workload isn't terrible Great volunteer opportunities There are a lot of problems that need to be fixed... if you're halfway intelligent you'll get exposure and the chance to fix them

Cons

-Terrible culture -Despite the fact that they promote "great career development opportunities" there are none management is hired from the outside or spread around to current management -Worcester may be the worst city in the world -Company is totally disconnected with current industry trends and refuses to accept that -Proprietary system was built in the 70's (think MS-DOS). Have fun doing any decent analysis -Rotating through positions? Prepare to become a professional report runner -Recognition is based on how much you whine. Do bad work and whine a lot? Get a big bonus and the chance to travel internationally. Do great work quietly? Get a Hanover emblazoned lunch box. -Company has no idea how to retain young talent- makes excuses for those that leave -If you're "early in career" and you're not an FLP, prepared to be passed over and ignored (This coming from an FLP...) -Useless job requirements (tests, classes, etc)

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