Trupanion reviews

3.2

41% would recommend to a friend

(427 total reviews)
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Margi Tooth

36% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Trupanion has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 427 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Trupanion employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal Consumer Services industry (3.3 stars).

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427 reviews
3.0
Apr 27, 2020

An all-around okay job

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Pros

I worked for Trupanion for 5 years, my titles changed a few times, but basically I collected medical records and information needed to process claims from veterinary clinics and pet owners. The perks are paid medical/vision/dental, free childcare, the option to bring your pets to work, the option to work from home, a paid sabbatical every 5 years, PTO increases based on years with the company and fairly awesome coworkers. Schedules can be fairly flexible based on team needs. Overall a good job especially if you're a student or a new parent with another income from a spouse/partner.

Cons

The job itself isn't that hard but is made unnecessarily stressful. Pay isn't that great to begin with but pay and bonus structure do change, the way they calculate production and quality scores also changes fairly often. So if you need more than the base hourly rate to survive it can be very stressful. You do have to maintain certain prod and quality scores to be able to work remotely (and to keep your job) so changes also add to the stress. It's not unheard of for people who were bonusing at high levels to be put on a prod/quality plan after a structure or rule change. Also not unheard of for people to work off the clock or cherry pick easy tasks in order to maintain baseline. They do often require meetings or training that isn't taken into account when calculating production values which hurts your bonus potential, leading to many clocking out or 'taking a lunch' during meetings. There are sometimes in the year where there isn't enough work for everyone which can lead to your prod score taking a dip. This position sometimes requires that you do the data assistants job which can hurt your prod/quality (sometimes they adjust for this but not always). The people who come up with the quality scores do sometimes appear to be targeting individuals - there have been a couple people who have received lyncs (in-house text messages) from the quality assurance team by mistake alluding to that. Complaints and concerns are for the most part dismissed as they 'haven't heard that from anyone else'. Another con - if you don't have any sort of veterinary experience you'll have very little upward mobility. I was told after hire by my supervisor that this would be a dead end job for me. FYI for those considering a job here I was able to find a job that pays $10 more an hour with fewer job qualifications so don't feel like you have to stay here once you're ready to move on.

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Trupanion Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to compose such thoughtful feedback - it's critical to helping us improve! First, we're so happy to hear you describe your coworkers as "awesome," and that you overall liked the work and flexibility the job offered. On the other hand, it sounds like at times you felt overly stressed or like compensation wasn't living up to your expectations. Trupanion is aware of feedback around comp and is actively working to make sure compensation aligns with the value and productivity each team member brings to the company. To that end, we recently hired a Senior Financial Analyst to focus on building out the best possible comp models for our team members. That being said, it's obviously still a work in progress. Given your long history with the company, we'd love to hear more of your thoughts on Trupanion. You can email any further feedback to peopleops@trupanion.com and/or set up a time to speak with us directly.
3.0
Apr 22, 2020

Low pay for long hours

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Pros

health care is good, office is very modern

Cons

long hours with lots of stress

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Trupanion Response
6y
Thank you for providing feedback, though we're sorry to hear you didn't enjoy your time with Trupanion. Employee fulfillment is a top goal for Trupanion, though of course, it's always possible to miss the mark. It's feedback like yours that can help us learn and grow and continue to strive to get better. We'd love to hear more from you about how we can improve. Please email peopleops@trupanion.com to set up a time for a confidential chat.
1.0
Apr 6, 2020

Meh

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Pros

The people you work with are pretty great You can bring your dog to work with you

Cons

Management Lack of development programs/assistance Pay Benefits There is a very cliquey atmosphere and if you are not a part of it you will be left behind and or treated poorly

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Trupanion Response
6y
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you had a less than superb experience with Trupanion- our employees really matter to us and we're trying our best to provide a great experience for them. If you are comfortable doing so, we'd love to hear more from you about how we can improve. Please email peopleops@trupanion.com to set up a time for a confidential chat.
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