Allstate Reviews

I have been working at Allstate full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Many employees come and stay; it is not an environment that promotes high turnover; good recognition with departments (at least in mine); potential for career movement; inclusive culture

Cons – Because so many people take a long time to leave the company movement can sometimes seem stalled. Health insurance cost could be lower when compared to some other companies; it seems for an insurance company the employees would get better discounts on the actual insurance

Advice to Senior Management – Increase the employee discount; continue with the culture change; find ways to become more competitive cost wise

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Allstate full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great training and development in claims

Cons – Slow advancement and prefer people with degrees

Advice to Senior Management – Promote from within the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Allstate full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great Benefits, great opportunity, great people, evolving culture, pay for performance.

Cons – Need to get everyone on board or rather off the entitlement train.
Tenure does not equal good performance

Advice to Senior Management – I feel confident that we are on the right track to grow the company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Allstate full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – I love working for Allstate. It is a company that really provides its employees with a couple different things. First of all, they offer generous benefits; a pension and a 401k, generous time-off and cost-effective medical benefits. Secondly, the company offers employees many opportunities to advance, either in the work that they do or in a different department. An employee can have multiple careers during their employment with Allstate. The opportunities are numerous.

I am a person that worked at Allstate and then left the company to try some other things. Over a period of years, I worked at a couple companies and they did not touch Allstate. I finally was able to return to Allstate last year and I can firmly say; the grass is not always greener on the other side. It definitely was not in my case.

I would recommend a career at Allstate to anyone.

Cons – Retirment is very far away ...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Allstate full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Indepence, excellent training program, great management and staff support. Excellent promotion and career path opportunities, open and fair internal hiring program. Good benefits including generous 401k matching and pension programs.

Cons – Compensation for the amount of expected production and performance seems lower than industry standard. Twelve hour workdays and the number of nights spent in hotels on the road can become physically and mentally draining.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Allstate full-time for more than a year

Pros – -great growth opportunity
-good benefits
-great employee discounts

Cons – -None! I absolutely loved my job!!

Advice to Senior Management – keep up the good work.

I worked at Allstate full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great benefits, pay
Time off, recognition

Cons – Heavy workload and can be long hours

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Allstate full-time for less than a year

Pros – Up to date systems, transparent pricing and excellent work environment.

Cons – Limited commercial and Farm market. Also successful agents will have to be managers of a small business not sales people. Insurance Companies who use a captive agent distribution system are moving to fewer agencies with higher policy counts. In order to succeed agents have to manage their sales and service staff and do less selling themselves. This is a trend that has been underway for the last 10 years.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Allstate full-time for more than a year

Pros – I do not know if all good things that I can say about the company is just due to the location I was In or the rest of the company is good as well, but I still could feel that they sincerely trying to be good to their customers and that kind of made employees feel good as well. It is nice to go to work and believe that you are doing something for a good cause.
Schedule had enough flexibility to make it an extra great perk.
Some managers were absolutely great, some were OK, but an overall, my impression about the company and direction they are heading is pretty good.
The pay was they same or bit lower than other places in similar industry, but again - the company culture was giving enough satisfaction to deal with it.
Benefits were good (Health insurance, 411k etc...)
Pretty transparent - we had pretty good idea who our Top Managers were and saw or had some news from them pretty often.

Cons – Pay was the same or a bit lower than pay in my area for the same industry.
Location I was working in closed down, unfortunately (but I have to say that Management treated 'closing' process pretty well and made an extra effort to make sure many 'laid off' people were able to find jobs after that pretty soon - some people choose to move with the company to different states as well)
Possibilities for growth were limited in the location I was in. If you wanted to 'grow' you often had to move to a different state.
I liked the company but decided that Insurance Industry is not my favorite direction in life.

Advice to Senior Management – A little bit more connection with new technologies and Social Media would be good. It seems like company is trying to catch up there but not quite on a level yet.
Keep working on "Customer First" culture. It is important and it does makes a difference.
Just want to say 'thanks' for time I was there and good luck to the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Allstate full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Allstate offers competitive pay, provides great work life balance, benefits are comparable to leading companies in the same market segment,

Cons – I did not experience any cons during my dacade of employment with the company. Some of my colleagues complain about lack of career growth but my experience was different.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company