State Farm Employee Reviews about "training"

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The only downside for me of working at State Farm is that they have no corporate offices within Chicago. I am a prospective actuary and finding a job in downtown Chicago would be ideal, but the closest corporate office is in Bloomington.

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Advised disability manager apparently believed that she knew better than ada disability and forced employee to do training!

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extremely hard work and requires a lot of patience and to be a master of training

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Like any other sales job its hustle hustle hustle. So if you can't hustle and reach the numbers this job is not for you.

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-There's the wrong way to do things and there's the 'State Farm' way (i.e. if you go against the culture in anyway, you become ostracized) - They pay lip service to 'up-skilling' but only allow favorite employees time and money to attend quality training beyond online videos or click-through classes - If you like business processes and enjoy talking to 5-12 different people before you get any work done related to your job, then go with State Farm's Information Security department. - They have an odd obsession with Agile and Scrum, even for non-developmental/technical teams. It rewards people who can speak in buzz words and break down work as opposed to finding an actual creative solution to actual problems. - I've spoke with multiple people who state that they would do almost anything else, but stick around because of the high salaries, raises, and bonuses (e.g. golden handcuffs). Apparently if you can deal with being generally miserable every day, then this is the job for you. - You will not be well-rounded here. State Farm is a huge company and they can afford to have people work only on one 'flavor' of a job at a time (governance, scripting, Federation, etc - only) so that if you try to leave, you are far behind your peers and don't have the well-rounded skills to keep up and get hired elsewhere (see Golden handcuffs comment) so you become stuck since you can't go anywhere else (don't do this to yourself!).

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Your nothing but a number

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Micro-Management. But that’s anywhere. It’s just another call center job. Training is very good and extensive but you don’t go over what you’ll actually go thru on the job. The complexity of the claims should be stressed in training. Attendance point system is HORRIBLE. Worst system for any job that’s I have been a part of. If you call in or miss a day for any reason it’s 4 points. After 8 points your on a warning and 16 your job is on the line. It can be anything from sickness, death in family, regardless they will give you the points. There are many different food choices but during most peoples lunch time they aren’t open.

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Pay is not good for the amount of work required. System is constantly change and company expects you to know how to work it within a day with minimal training.

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Too much drama. Long time employees are older and set in their ways. There's no room for growth and very little team training for continued office success. Leadership isn't as strong in human relations. Staff is allowed to do as they wish too often with no serious repercussions. Very little incentives. No motivation for change. Everyone wants to be the boss. No benefits. No medical, No dental. Very little time off a year. Sick days and vacation time off are one and the same. No overtime permitted since it's salary. Time is deducted but no additional time or pay provided if you work over 80 hours. Difficult to sell because customer service work is often time consuming.

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ALL THE TEA. Heavy on metrics. Mandatory overtime is apparently common and it’s hard to take time off once out of training. Disorganized database for procedures, so you have to always ask people where information is located or try to find it yourself. Stressful when you don’t even know what you’re looking for. Trainers on the hotline you can call for help are often too busy. Training is SUPER FAST, even for people who have licenses and no experience. Definitely recommend getting your home or designated license before applying, bc training plus that burden is ALOT! Some of the training feels backwards. I often feel like they hand you a whole bunch of random tools then tell you to go build a house…which btw you will be taught all the components of a house in ONE DAY! That’s how fast training is. People have quit during this training phase because it was too fast and difficult. THIS JOB IS STRESSFUL! They will teach you a bunch of stuff that is not relevant to your job…which makes me upset because I’m getting paid for one job while learning 2-3…and I will be “moved around as needed”. The worst part so far is the lack of consistency between what you are taught in the classroom, while shadowing, and what your manager wants/prefers. It’s so annoying because with so much information to retain, you’re prone to making the same mistakes…my manager is so new, he doesn’t even know how to help me sometimes.. Oh, and prepare to have a new managers every 2 months. I definitely feel like I should be getting paid more, but the salary is non negotiable.