Progressive Insurance Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Progressive Insurance full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – -Great Work Environment
-Great Training
-Great Management
-Love my job and team

Cons – -Moving into management is difficult if you want to stay here

Advice to Senior Management – -Nothing, great job

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Progressive Insurance full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits - between the onsite medical office, cafeterias, kitchen stations on every floor of every building, onsite gym, dry cleaners, quiet room...I could go on & on. Even the healthcare is better than every company I've worked for, before & after.
Culture - made some life-long friends from starting in the call center, all the way on up to IT and business roles. I'm one of the few that has left (regrettably). Many friends still there, with a stable position that provides challenges. How great is that in today's corporate economic state?

For anyone out there that complains about Progressive, all I can say is go work somewhere else doing the same, and let me know how that turns out. I've worked for 2 other companies since leaving due to a relocation and I can guarantee you nobody out there is as transparent to their employees and provides as much. If you are in one of the hourly positions, sure, it may not be as great. But like I said - go do the same elsewhere and see how that goes. As for promotion opportunities, I started out in the call center and moved UP into 4 other positions during a 7 year tenure. With every step I met more great people, learned more and felt like I worked for a company that respected their employees. Progressive is a fantastic company. If you think the grass is greener, I wish you luck.

Cons – No hiring program in place for Alumni. If you have good people that leave on good terms and want to come back, it should be an easy process to get them back in.

Advice to Senior Management – Add an Alumni hiring program to easily get your best team members back, given the opportunity.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Progressive Insurance as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great benefits, extensive art collection, enthusiastic employees, competitive pay, laid back atmosphere (including casual dress code), exercise and health clinic on campus.

Cons – None immediately come to mind.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep on keeping on

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Progressive Insurance full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great environment, flexible work schedule, room for growth with in the company. Decent salary and good benefits.

Cons – Workload can be over bearing!! Work life balance..

Advice to Senior Management – Management should take more time training associates for a career path within the company. The job at hand takes some time to understand and master so I think it would be great for management to spend more time developing new adjusters.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Progressive Insurance full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Benefits are great and has kept me there for over 5 years

Cons – Stressed corporate environment da da da

Advice to Senior Management – Understand the work of your employee's above anything else

Current Employee – been working at Progressive Insurance full-time for more than a year

Pros – Decent pay and friendly coworkers.

Cons – Unreasonable workloads, the faster and more efficient you are the more work that you get assigned to you. Taking a day off is basically shooting yourself in the foot and you will be paying back your time off one way or another albeit working weekends or staying late to catch up on the massive work load that has been assigned to you and not completed while out of the office.

Advice to Senior Management – Reduce workload.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Progressive Insurance

Pros – It is the largest company at Cleveland area.

Cons – The salary is not high.

Current Employee – been working at Progressive Insurance full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great environment to work and lots of opportunity for growth within the company

Cons – some management is young and inexperianced

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Progressive Insurance full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good salary, areas for advancement, training provided, decent work hours, friendly environment to work in.

Cons – Very high paced and strict environment, turn around report time challenging, must be extremely multifaceted and have superior time management skills to keep up with your job description to receive a raise. Unfortunately many of their employment positions have moved closer to there main home office locations.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Progressive Insurance full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The people they hire are people you would want to work with.

Cons – Progressive employment is extremely misleading. For a company their size, worth over $14 billion dollars, there would be more opportunity. However, the "growth" they like to boast is primarily comprised of back filling and transfers. Plan on little to no upward mobility - UNLESS management LOVES you, both professionally and personally. It is definitely a game of favorites, and unless you're a sycophant, don't plan on promotions. If you don't eat sleep and breathe Progressive and LOVE every minute - good or bad - you'll have no career. They want yes-workers, no one with ideas or out of the box thinking. This company definitely falls prey to its own success...Progressive is so large, that they have absolutely lost touch with their base workers. Every other person I know that works in insurance outside of Progressive makes more. Usually quite a bit more. Annual salary reviews are usually a joke, and can oftentimes be insulting. They do not recognize the experience and merits of some of their more tenured reps. Local management will not stand behind you in decisions you make, and I don't know if that's out of fear from corporate, or sheer apathy. It's unfortunate that I'm looking outside of Progressive, because I feel that I AM a valuable employee (and I still like my coworkers), but I don't feel valued at all. Better compensation and fewer lateral movements preventing local vertical movement are ultimately the ONLY things that would need to be addressed...unfortunately that comprises about 80% of what a career is. Hence the 1/5 stars. Sorry, Progressive.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop playing favorites. Start paying competitively.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company