Claims is a sales job - Anonymous employee GEICO Employee Review

2.0
Jan 16, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are excellent, and are lower than most.

Cons

Upper management is a joke. I would like for them to sit in our position for two months and then seen how they feel. Supervisors give dumb coaching advice that makes no sense. The job is actually a sales job cramming down shops to people already yelling they don't want it. Better not have a life threatening situation because time off is hard to get. You have to fight for a doctor's appointment and then get reprimanded if your child is sick and you can't come in. If you can't do overtime it's a problem. Those that are parents are totally screwed. The company can't understand you are a parent and actually have a personal life. You are expected to answer every single call including calls from team members and not get behind. All claims supervisors are idiots and no idea what is going on with a claim, but want to give special coaching advice that has nothing to do with the claim and gets workers further behind. The company would rather deny than pay out in accidents, because it affects profit sharing. Go work for another carrier. Stay away from this one. They do NOT care about their employees. It's all about numbers and they do NOT care how they get them, even if they are screwing with their employees and customers. You don't need experience to be a supervisor. Only how to dictate how to keep numbers low.

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Pros

GEICO is one of the largest employers in my smaller town, so I've heard all the good, the bad, and the ugly. What a pleasant surprise it's been working here! There is so much intentional change to create a great employee experience and get the right team leaders in place. Highly recommend not putting too much weight into older negative comments if you're thinking about applying. I've been very happy with my salary, the benefits/time off, culture, and leadership (both locally and senior leaders). I feel like there's a lot of room to continue to grow my career here and I see the same opportunities for others.

Cons

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2.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Interesting problems to work on. Good benefits. Decent pay.

Cons

Managers will gaslight you and upper leadership is constantly changing, so expect projects you're working on to be thrown out every 6 months. Many people burn out and quit after some time and are never back filled, so you'll be expected to take on their workload. Some of my colleagues were working 80 hour work weeks to keep up with the work load and yet told they were not performing well enough. There also wasn't much diversity.

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