Slow, Outdated, Stable - IT Applications Programmer Progressive Insurance Employee Review

2.0
Sep 17, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Relaxed, laid back culture. There are a lot of different things you can work on throughout the IT department. The work-life balance is great. The campus is nice. This would be a good job for someone looking for stability.

Cons

A lot of the technology is outdated. People just do their job and not much more than that. There isn't much innovation, and you will likely work with many people who are lacking in skills and understanding of modern technologies and just programming ability in general. With many employees having worked at the company for many years in an environment of low-growth and hacking on badly written code, the problem of trying to transition out of outdated applications, let alone write decently-built applications is a significant effort. You are expected to work for at least a few years to be taken seriously. The culture and values that are touted seem to be contradictory to the general working environment. Although there may be a few teams working on some cool things, most of IT participates in dull work.

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5.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Strong Leadership Consistent Strategy People Oriented Culture

Cons

Larger more mature company - less agile and harder to drive change - still happens but takes longer and a lot more coordination

2.0
Jul 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Work from home, Ok opportunities to learn more but opportunities are becoming slim.

Cons

Between Micromanagement, work overload and with the use of vendors and AI employees are at risk. Corporate seems to not care that were all tired of the customers that are being abusive when corporates made bad decisions and these poor people have thousands withdrawn from an AI error. Pay for this level of company and the increasing headaches is not good, no monthly bonus, no commissions. No pension. Health benefits are available but not affordable. And the undo stress is causing my peers to consider quiting even ones that been here over 10yrs

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