The Standard reviews

3.7

77% would recommend to a friend

(731 total reviews)
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Dan McMillan

87% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

The Standard has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 731 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Standard employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.4 stars).

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731 reviews
1.0
Feb 8, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

If you need a little time off, they are flexible to a point. This is a positive for the organization.

Cons

Incompetent hiring practices. The Standard does not ensure the employee's success. No training even though training was promised. Overall, training is not provided in any adequate form. One hour here and there and that's the "2-week training." Additionally, they really sell the training for the Account Manager job. If you do not have experience as an Account Manager in Retirement Plans, avoid this job. It will be your worst nightmare. Work/life balance is not present. Management is not fair, and promotions are few and very far between. You will be stuck in a "white collar production" environment. Hamster on a wheel without knowledge as to how to keep in balance on the wheel. Turn and burn environment. Not very intelligent business practices.

1.0
Feb 3, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The company supports charitable causes. Benefits package is good. Location in downtown Portland is beautiful. Supports pre-tax payment of city parking.

Cons

IT is in very poor shape and continues to degrade. Management treats IT employees with little respect -- business analysts were recently told by our boss in a team meeting that a group of "monkeys" could do our job. Not doing business analysis work, more projects like text-file batch processing. No raises -- 0% -- for third year in a row for almost all employees. Big outsourcing to India continues. All the mainframe COBOL programmers were just informed they are being laid off and all their work is moving to India. Just a few months ago the VP of IT David O'Brien specifically told the COBOL programmers that some remote Indian staff were going to suppliment existing staff and no one would be laid off. So basically IT was lied to. Now some business analysts from India are being brought in, but we have been assured by the VP this is only to suppliment existing staff and none of us are going to be laid off.

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