Esurance Reviews

Pros

Great work life balance, great culture and support.

Cons

The sales process isn't open to change, its been the same thing for years. Other than than great place to work to at.

Pros

pay and benefits are the best pros

Cons

dev culture is like elementary school mind sets

Pros

Decent starting salary but that is really it.

Cons

Building was disgusting, Terrible training, You can never get the time off that you want, Unreasonable workload, Poor Management. Only way to move up is to become a "Favorite"

Pros

I was valued as an employee.

Cons

Medical benefits could have been better.

Pros

Overall friendly, casual atmosphere. It feels like an insurance company with "business casual" but seems to be closer to "casual" with its startup roots. At the same time, the backing by Allstate means there's a lot of good perks and no sense of impending doom looming over your head when working at a "startup". You get a sense of flexibility/urgency from the startup roots but also the sense of security from the big business backers. They seem flexible with some work at home policies, commuter benefits, good compensation, and good bonus structure.

Cons

Sometimes it feels like I'm at a startup where I'm rapidly switching positions and roles to try on different hats and extinguish fires to rapidly get a demo for a release to release a cool new product agilely. But, then, at the same time, there's mountains of documentation for things to dig through with things almost coming straight out of Office Space, which makes sense because of all the regulations and laws within the insurance industry, naturally. It's a bizarre mix of "startup" and "big business", which may not be everybody's thing.

Pros

Nice people and a young crowd. Interesting projects going on and a lot of data to work with. The high turnover provides easy opportunities to move up if you work hard. People generally want to do a good job. The systems are pretty bad, but it seems like things are moving in a positive direction. Management does a good job of recognizing people for their contributions. Decent work-life balance.

Cons

Within the Product Department in particular, the business processes and systems are not well designed or documented. The department has really high turnover and has trouble maintaining a knowledge base. Nearly all of the senior analysts recently quit or moved to other teams/departments, so if you want strong actuarial mentors they are hard to come by. Entry level analysts are typically asked to work with some archaic business tools with little technical support or training. Compensation is not adequately adjusted for the high Bay Area cost of living.

Pros

Esurance is a great place to work, co works where great, the mentor were good with the exception of one that made me feel so awful and brought me to tear, she should not be a mentor at all, I ended up quitting because of the way I was treated, there was a issue that she didn't bring to my attention right away and a customer was negatively affected, she know about this issue and didn't let me know till it was to late, she was not doing her job, and humiliated me into quitting a job I really enjoyed

Cons

The one mentor who humiliated me into quitting

Pros

At least on the outside there is the appearance of mobility within the company. Some managers are very helpful. Decent amount of PTO.

Cons

With this company there’s almost no chance of being even slightly caught up in your work unless you stay late, but since employees are salary you won’t be paid for the extra work you do that is completely necessary. The work load is high. The company advocates work-life balance but then gives you a hard time if you try to focus on your personal time if everything they want isn’t first done to a T. There is very little faith in employees to manage their own work. There’s a high degree of micromanaging. The metrics they use don’t correlate with if someone is a good employee. More often you have to be a less good employee and provide less stellar customer attention just to have your numbers fall in the range they want. Employees are cut loose with no warning and there is no indication of what they’ve even done wrong so it can’t be repeated. Other departments are very lazy and constantly try to throw their work back on you, which may be an indication that employee expectations are also unfair on that end.