Farmers Group Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Farmers Group full-time

Pros – Good pay and benefits, flexible schedules, potential to work from home

Cons – Management routinely "restructures" the entire organization, leaving their employees scrambling to find new jobs or take pay cuts to stay in their existing ones. Advancement is based on making friends with upper management rather than ability. Females and minorities will find it difficult to advance past low level management regardless of skill. Discrimination based on sexual orientation is rampant among management.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop claiming to value your employees and start actually valuing them. Promote based on skill. Don't retaliate against employees who give honest feedback. Don't discriminate against everyone who isn't a golf-playing white male. Stop "restructuring" your good employees out of the jobs they love.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Farmers Group full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great use of technology, lots of training, overtime and company car for most adjuster jobs.

Cons – Not a lot of growth for field personnel unless you live near one of the centralized claims centers

Advice to Senior Management – More recognition and opportunities for field personnel, also remember what we do everyday and make things more efficient, not more complicated.

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

Former Employee – worked at Farmers Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great agent to work for-lots of fun and totally a fantastic company to work for. Was able to work full time and still raise my children. Was allowed to pick up my child if sick from school and take them to work with me if needed. There was a TV and a video player to occupy them during work.

Cons – the constant pressure to become an agent

Advice to Senior Management – leave the customer service reps do their job without the pressure of trying to convert us from a salaried position to a commission base job

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

Current Employee – been working at Farmers Group full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Was a family oriented company with pretty good benefits.

Cons – To many chiefs running the show. It has gone a bit haywire.

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

Current Employee – been working at Farmers Group full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good opportunities if able to relocate. Good people to work with. Good compensation/benefits package.

Cons – High work demands, inconsistent executive leadership/direction, work/life balance is difficult to obtain due to workload, need to work in a hub to progress your career beyond first layer management.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Farmers Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits, pay, and great employees

Cons – micro management, cliques, unqualified management, and unfair practices

Advice to Senior Management – Get a degree in management. its not a title its a qualification

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Farmers Group full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good product array, good financial service products, good contract for agents again.

Cons – Highest price in insurance on a lot of products. Poor agency support and unrealistic expectations. Unreliable computer systems and horrible upper management. Over promises and no follow through on the company side. Customer experience is horrible.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean house ! Quit all the distortion of truths, go back to being real with agents and customers and care about them!,!!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Farmers Group part-time for less than a year

Pros – This was my first job, as a telemarketer and sales assistant. I worked in a private office in Glen Ellyn, my boss was very knowledgeable and understanding. The only reason I quit was because of not getting enough hours.

Cons – Imput system was very outdated. Farmers' service was of no help when I called about it. This is the only bad thing I could think of.

Advice to Senior Management – Update your system that you use! An outdated version of Internet Explorer shouldn't have to be opened in order to use your outdated data client.

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

Current Employee – been working at Farmers Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexible work hours, generous paid time off, good health insurance

Cons – Company is large so hard to move up

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to the people who work below you. I've had management make so many poor decisions without consulting the people who will actually be affected.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Farmers Group full-time for less than a year

Pros – Being able to sell a product with a reputable name. Also they gave the agents free leads to work with on a daily basis.

Cons – Leads are old and have about a 1-2% hit ratio. The entire job was based on false impressions. Extremely high quotas, with extremely large repercussions for not hitting them. The success rates for new agents at farmers is extremely low.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend