Brown & Brown Insurance Reviews

Pros

Friendly Environment. Cafeteria in building.
Free workout classes.

Advice to Management

Give people an actual chance.
And don't ignore them.

Pros

Great enviroment to work in. Very decentralized office.

Pros

Plenty of resources. Informed staff. Professional. Highly focused on building successful businesses

Advice to Management

Take marketing and your image seriously. Pay your non management employees fair wages for the work and long hours. Care more about people and and doing good work rather than being mostly about profit. Also, the Cheetah isn't a great mascot. They're rather passive animals that only chase what's running from them. They're going extinct because they are so specialized and aren't adapting to their environment quickly enough.

Pros

The people are friendly. I like having health insurance. You can buy the company stock at a 15% discount but non management doesn't make enough to actually invest in that.

Advice to Management

Pay more. Give raises every year. Let people transfer to other offices.

Pros

Continuing education is a must for every position in the company and there is now an internal team providing robust training solutions in the form of Brown & Brown University. BBU currently has 2 schools (sales and service), but will add many more in the next 12 months (HR, finance, internal operations, acquisitions, IT, leadership, etc).

Management is very encouraging and treats us like professionals. Keep in mind, this is specific to my team/department. It's a decentralized company, so I can't speak for everyone. The management of my team is the number one reason that I'm happy in this position and would like to finish my career with this company. I wish everyone at B&B could say that.

PTO was just changed to DTO, so I now have more time available to me (was 2 weeks/year, now 5/year).

Advice to Management

It's apparent that some movement is being made to get the company into modern times. But frankly, you are moving too slow. Brown & Brown has the reputation of being "old school" and not in a good way. You see this as a testament of work ethic, but prospective teammates see it as behind the times in technology, security, marketing, employee development, etc. Brown & Brown doesn't look or feel like the successful company that it is. You can do better!

Pros

Employee stock purchase plan is a great investment tool and other ancillary benefits are very competitive, and education is supported.

Advice to Management

Young professionals need a more direct route to production rather than work as an account manager until you are deemed "ready". Many opportunities are lost because associates are not used to their own capacity.

Pros

Brown grows by aquirining companies and their employees. All employees which I worked with were let go within three years. I tried to hold on myself but didn't make it. Luckily I found a job that was a better fit within 3 weeks and I am happy there. I am grateful for the paychecks I got but I probably wasted time at Brown & Brown regarding my career.

Advice to Management

No advice. It's your company. Your making money so what if you step on a few toes? It was best for me to part because my stress level was not healthy working there. I am a better employee without that manufactured stress.

Pros

Great Benefits, Vacation Plan and co-workers.

Advice to Management

Pay more for experienced people.

Pros

No pros for working here unless you want to be a slave to people who will never appreciate you. The younger you are, the more they take advantage of you. If you have an education, don't lower yourself by working here.

Advice to Management

Learn to be more professional. You're an embarrassment.

Pros

A guaranteed paycheck every two weeks is about all they guarantee and having most holidays off are good. But can't really say anything else much more for pros

Advice to Management

Treat people fair and pay them what they're worth!!