Texas Department of Insurance Employee Reviews about "people"

Pros

State benefits, assisting consumers, state holidays

Cons

Salary, little room for growth, need more professional development programs, management often promotes people who are not qualified for their positions often creating a hostile work environment.

Pros

Work-life balance, benefits of working for the state, flexible hours

Cons

Culture, people afraid of change, almost impossibly heavy workload,

Pros

Local office had some good people and travel

Cons

Some coworkers were too close minded.

Pros

Great people to work with!

Cons

State agencies don't have much funding for promotions.

Pros

Great people to work with

Cons

Sometimes working in cubicles can be frustrating

Pros

Most of people I worked with were pleasant.

Cons

Lots of bureaucratic hoops to jump through on anything which cost state money.

Pros

Great People! Management is very knowledgable. Positive work enviroment.

Cons

Pay could be better. Benefits are great though!

Pros

Positive work environment, great people to work with, they offer free training to employees who wish to gain more experience, and they promote from within the agency.

Cons

Salaries are on the low side for the time commitments, management is pretty flexible, and approachable with dates for requesting vacation, and the salary increases seem to be slightly above the inflation rate for staff that stays in their current position year after year.

Pros

People here are nice, very friendly envirnoment.

Cons

Not many things to do. A lot of down time.

Pros

I came to the Department with knowledge and experience in one area of insurance, and in working here, was able to learn about many other lines of insurance and all the legal stuff that goes along with it. Decent training opportunities--and there is a lot of variety as to what you can do at the agency. The pay and benefits were decent, at least for someone like me with several years experience but who wasn't managerial. The people were great.

Cons

The focus was always on the numbers, at times at the expense of the quality or without being sufficiently staffed. Standard red tape and bureaucratic process found in any state or governmental agency makes change a slow process. Not all departments are on the same page or on par with each other, you have to find a department within which you can work efficiently and effectively.