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Farmers Insurance Group

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Worst culture and management ever! - IT Marketing Farmers Insurance Group Employee Review

2.0
Nov 29, 2019
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Pros

Decent pay, sometimes you can work from home up to your mercurial manager, good annual bonus, good vacation amount and 401k. They are really trying to move to DevOps and SAFe but their culture eats good intentions for breakfast!

Cons

Inept managers, stone age IT process and stack, company controlled by inept and unmotivated Indian contractors. They don't even have a staging environment therefore the code is deployed straight to production, on the weekends with no rollback possible!!!! They put the darn production environment on maintenance mode and run QA testing there... unbelievable!! Almost all managers were contractors promoted to that role because the company's turnover of good engineers is insane, like 8-9 months. Marketing IT is run by all former Toyota Financial managers mafia hired by former CIO who quit because the only thing he was able to do is to show up on a CIO magazine cover while his IT was crumbling down (still).

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

The company is effectively taking the benefit of years of hard work that prior agents invested to grow their businesses and increase Farmers’ policy count. When I started as an agency owner, I invested my own time and money into advertising and building a book of business with the understanding that the sacrifices would pay off over time through renewal commissions. I believed this would create long-term value—something I could eventually rely on to support my retirement. Instead, the constant changes to commission structures and ongoing requirements to continue receiving compensation on business I personally produced—without support—have been incredibly discouraging. It feels like a moving target, and one that diminishes the value of what agents have built. I’ve never been in a position where meetings are held to explain how and why compensation will be reduced or taken away. That reality is deeply frustrating and disheartening.

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