Sweatshop. - Underwriter GEICO Employee Review

1.0
Aug 28, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is decent pay, and excellent benefits. Fairly thorough training and lots of feedback, you don't have to pay your own licensing fees.

Cons

First, the pay is decent for the area, but not worth the volume of work you're given or the draconian standards you're held to. Every other insurance company offers less stressful and higher paying work in the same industry. The performance goals start reasonably enough, but every time you exceed those goal, that is then made the standard. If you continue to do well, the standard continues to increase until the best you can do is average or slightly under, which they then use to justify giving you the bare minimum raise, or worse---no raise at all. Their idea of promoting within is to give someone a lateral "promotion" wherein they are doing the jobs of their supervisors for the same pay they were getting before, then they "rotate" you back into your original position occassionally, essentially to show you that the job you were doing was a privilege to be granted and removed by the company. After years of doing this, if you're lucky, you get granted a promotion, and in most cases get a marginal pay increase for your troubles. The sole goal of this company is growth, not the care of their policyholders or their employees. In order to advance in any meaningful way you have to take classes like "Getting Results Through People" where they specifically train you on how to manipulate your underlings into not feeling too good about their performance so you can justify holding off raises. There's also a class called "Winning Attitudes" for the underlings to essentially tell them all "keep your mouth shut and your head down, and if you have a problem with that we offer four free telephone emotional counseling sessions to help you with that". This place is a death trap. I got out, and unfortunately my fiancee is still there---it's making us both miserable.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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

Really nothing major that I can think of!

2.0
Jun 26, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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