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Insurance Services Office

Now known as Verisk

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Best Place in Insurance Industry to Start your career if you can get in. - Field Representative Insurance Services Office Employee Review

5.0
Mar 26, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Quality of life is through the roof amazing. Your work schedule is made by you and completely flexible as long as you are meeting your goals set forth by management. If you perform above your coworkers you will be rewarded with bonuses. You work from your home office and complete work for other insurance companies including ratings and underwriting surveys. The training is excellent and ongoing with continual training monthly. Managers are very friendly as long as you meet their goals they expect. Is this job easy? No. Is it satisfying? Yes. I like the fact I can work 12 hours on Thursday and take a half day on Friday if my workload allows it. Working at ISO is a 5 star experience for the most part.

Cons

Raises are a little below par as after you have been there for about three years you are qualified for Loss control jobs with many insurance companies starting at 70-80K but you will only be making about 50K+ at ISO. This affects their turnover somewhat I'd assume. I've heard some have to threaten to leave ISO and quit for a day and be rehired for a 20K raise for your own job so they can remain competitive. Due to policies on raises these types of games are played. ISO reps are trained to high standards therefore are highly sought after. FR's don't sit in a classroom to learn about sprinkler systems, they go to the Delaware Tech burn labs for a hands on training experience. No one can compare.

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5.0
Sep 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Independent worm from home w little supervision. -Opportunity for advancement -company car

Cons

Travel weekly, occasionally overnight. (Once or twice per month)

3.0
Jul 12, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Friendly atmosphere and flexible hours. Solid benefits package. Employees are encouraged develop as insurance professionals and not criticized for taking exams regardless of the outcome. New employees receive excellent training and more often than not good mentors when they first come to ISO.

Cons

No one has a clear understanding of how the promotion system works as you may see individuals with a distinct skill set and numerous accomplishments having the same or a lower rank than other people in the same division who are not nearly as talented or accomplished. This leads many veterans to accuse the promotion system of being more influenced by personal relationships and connections than actual performance. There is an initiative to seek out talented individuals to fast track them into management roles but the huge flaws in that logic are that a) there are few management positions available because underperforming managers are hard to eliminate no matter how many workers they may alienate b) not every good worker is suited to be a manager and c) there is no attention paid to what happens when an excellent worker gets promoted and there aren’t qualified analysts to fill their position. The lack of attention and resources directed towards the pool of talented workers who are not in management has led to many individuals burning out and becoming complacent or leaving the company as their voices are either not heard or disregarded as there have been few, if any substantive changes in procedures over the past decade.

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