Vantaggi
Benefits are still pretty solid and well-priced, especially if you have a family. Pay at the entry level is still pretty good for the amount of experience required. Can still be a useful stepping stone to better companies. I was able to build a nice start to my career at GEICO, I had a lot of support behind my career growth, and there’s no question that it was great for me for a time. I just don’t think it was the same company when I left as it was when I started.
Svantaggi
Not sure where to start. In all, the treatment of associates has gotten a lot worse over the past two or so years. Job security used to be a big selling point of GEICO, but now almost everyone is afraid of losing their job in some manner. The disconnect between senior management and everyone else is as bad as I‘ve ever seen or heard of; I very rarely heard a word from Todd Combs towards the end, and I had to go to Reddit to get any sense of what was going on. They took away profit sharing, and they claimed it was going to be replaced by a new bonus structure with details coming soon… and it was complete radio silence on that front until I left nearly a year later. GEICO jumping on the return to office bandwagon pretty much took away the last reason I had to stick around (I genuinely had nothing to gain by working in office… virtually all collaboration I did was with people in different offices anyway). In all, it just doesn’t feel like the company even pretends to care anymore.