Nationwide Reviews

Pros

You can achieve work life balance.

Cons

It's hard to be innovative

Advice to Senior Management

It is important to have skip level meetings and talk to your associates.

Pros

Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
Flexible with Requests for Time off
Friendly Co-workers
Approachable Leadership
Great Personal Development Opportunities
Fair Compensation

Cons

Big Company
Lots of Competition for Opportunities

Pros

The pay is good and the benefits are good.

Cons

I feel that the leaders of the sales organizations work in silos and do not communicate information well. It seems as though no one ever really knows anything. They push sales representatives to sell items based on value, in an economic time where customers are more concerned with price.

Advice to Senior Management

Talk to one another and add structure.

Pros

They are a very open minded company and encourage diversity.

Cons

There is not enough career development.

Pros

Work-Life Balance, excellent corporate culture

Cons

Compensation - pay is lagging compared to industry standards

Advice to Senior Management

limited

Pros

- Pay. That would be about it.

Cons

- Phone positions are very stressful.
- Quality program can determine whether you have a job or not, yet only 1-3% of all calls for the month are pulled randomly for evaluations.
- Management has a tendency to change employee policies for the worst, and make the changes retroactive.
- People who do well and have been there for years are rarely promoted, while brand new people are promoted right away.
- Talent it not noticed by management.

Advice to Senior Management

If you have employees that are good at something, help them towards a position that would suit them better. Also, the attendance structure has to be reworked. 6 total absences allowed in a ROLLING 12 month period? People have lives outside of work, you know.

Pros

My immediate supervisors. Very compassionate and appreciative of my work. Gave me an opportunity to work at a hurricane site and exposed me to the work the adjusters do under extreme circumstances.

Cons

Having to drive into work location in adverse weather. Pay could have been better all around.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't spend so much money on the advertising for sporting events and give part of that budget to the employees instead. Also, give the money that you spend on Nationwide logos "favors"to the employees. They would prefer the money over the trinkets.
Get rid of the current advertising - it does not represent the company well. The robot was some of the best advertising that Nationwide had.

Pros

Good place if you want to coast.

Cons

Much of management is always looking upwards and do not really care or know what their employees performance. Performance ratings are based on the buddy system. Too many people stuck in their ways from 20 yrs ago. Ton of dead weight.

Pros

Job Security/ Job is Easy----They haven't laid anyone off in the 2 years i've been working there, and if you get fired from there its most definitely going to be your own fault.

Easy to schedule time off----they are very accommodating when it comes to scheduling time off or taking a leave of absence for personal reasons.

Its Consistent----they will never ask you to do something you don't know how to do

Cons

Low Pay----this is not a high paying job, but compared to other insurance agency's they are paying less.

Increased Workload Diminished Pay----They have raised the amount of work we're expected to do, but slashed the amount of overtime we can work (basically for the past 6 months i've been working harder for less money). And they apparently raise the work quota every year.

Poor Training/Inadequate Training---There are only two people to train you on how to do whatever task you're supposed to do and they don't train you the same way. So, that leads to confusing among team members. Also, the people who check your work are not same people who trained you, so they have their own set of rules they follow. Leading to you having meetings with a boss because you might be making mistakes that either aren't mistakes because you got trained a different way or because the auditor simply has a different set of rules than your trainer.

Advice to Senior Management

Please fix how people on the lowest levels are trained, and please do something to try and improve morale other than giving us free pizza every other month. It makes me, and several of my other employees, feel like we're in 3rd grade and is mildly condescending.

Pros

Good to employees with vacation, 401K, and overall engagement

Cons

Mangement isn't even accross the board. Some very good and some below average and poor managers are left in place for to long.