Progressive Corporation Reviews

Pros

I would say the best reason to work at Progressive is the employees. Everyone is extremely friendly and helpful and really strive to be a team.

Cons

The only real con would be the work/life balance. They promote a good work/life balance a lot but then will have meetings saying how they are disappointed that no one is staying later than the allotted work hours.

Pros

They treat you like a human being !! They have benefits for part time employees.

Cons

If you need any help while working, you have to asked for help from a group of employees called "assist". If you get someone that isn't very interested in helping you, it can be difficult and there is not much recourse for the CSR.

Pros

The company has a lot of room for advancement. The people that I am fortunate to work with are very professional and skilled. My current manager is probably the best boss I have ever worked for.

Cons

Compensation is very average but the benefits and team that you will work with can make up some of the difference.

Pros

Good work life balance
3 weeks earned time off the first year.
easy about getting time off
good training
good work environment

Cons

money could be better but opportunities to advance are good, and realistic for performers.

Pros

Company is stable for the market.

Cons

Over worked with no chance to meet set metrics.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to work the front line before changes and metrics are set.

Pros

Benefits were great and on site perks were awesome.

Cons

"Political" promotions and your manager better like you or your life will be hard.

Pros

Great training program, excellent salary and benefits above the other insurance companies starting salaries. Supportive management to start.

Cons

The layoffs came around very suddenly, a Virtual Claim Unit was setup within a day which came from Corporate. Our management did not seem to know or didn't communicate it to the staff except within a days notice. Our office was downsized immediately because of that and then the layoffs came shortly thereafter. Insurance goes through cycles and most of the companies experienced what we did. It was just that the communication from Management was not there about what was occurring but in fairness, they may not have known either.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication to representatives within the branches from Management as best as possible. Progressive was a great company to work for and their training was excellent.

Pros

Great amount of time off. Profitable and stable company.

Cons

Unnecessary levels of management. Too many employees have held the same positions for too long. Political correctness and social responsibility receive more focus than making a profit.

Advice to Senior Management

Run the business as if it were your money on the line.

Pros

They are flexible with work hours, the campuses are very nice and have a lot of perks (Starbucks, Subway, etc.), the have flexible work arrangements (work from home 1 day a week)

Cons

Work/life balance does not exist, even though they have flexible work arrangements - they are not consistently applied within organizations or even among similiary job titles, salary is questionable in that they will sell you their "bonus" program as part of your compensation package to be at market, however once you get in the "comp ratio" always has you under 1 - which is below market - so you get conflicting messages.

Advice to Senior Management

Be consistent and fair, be open to change, give us the proper tools to do our job and start looking closer at what people do and how they compare to others in similiar roles across our company and other companies to ensure people are compensated correctly

Pros

If your manager likes you life is easy. Very easy to get away with doing anything other than something. You may have no skills but if you have a loud mouth you will go far. Management is very competent and OE Surveys are completely anonymous. Promotions are fair and managers have keen awareness of what their employees do day in and day out. The new project execution model works great! Despite millions of dollars being wasted on several large IT projects that went through months of planning, I'm confident that there will be no RIFs.

Cons

Too many employees on H1-B Visas. Benefits are quickly being wittled down to nothing. Opportunities to advance are limited. Employees are slowly but surely being replaced by contractors. I'm expecting to be unemployed within one year.

Advice to Senior Management

When the next set of RIFs rolls around get rid of managers.