Great experience in insurance but tough work-life balance - Recensione dipendente - Account Executive presso Goosehead Insurance

Great people to work with. Coworkers turned true friends. The role is very dynamic. You will never be bored.

I could say many things but I’ll summarize with these points: Job stability feels very low and very high at the same time. You perform well (which is very difficult in a Texas market without selling a bit of your soul at least) you can do whatever. I mean whatever. Yet, in a given year your role, your pay, your manager, your office location, and your daily expectations will probably change. Hope you can keep up! If you can’t, better tell all the family that are now Goosehead clients because you had to pass training somehow. You could be successful in this role. I’d say 9/10 people aren’t but you could be the 10%. For the rest of us, it’s a stepping stone job that pays the bills. You’ll survive your year contract so you don’t pay 10k back to this company. Somehow you will. At what cost? Stay tuned.

Goosehead has a strong marketing and recruiting platform that sells the opportunity and growth within the organization. Culture of sales organization is young and vibrant and initially gives new employees lots of energy. There is real opportunity for compensation upside if you can build referral relationships.

The lived experience compared to the culture advertised rarely lines up. What was once an organization that promoted heavily from within, now more and more brings in outside leadership. Not good at developing leaders from within the company or providing opportunity for junior leaders the opportunity to step into new roles. Sales management is immature and lacks professionalism. The culture and operating principles are discussed regularly but in my experience are just company marketing. If you want to get promoted you are better off appearing to fall in line instead of raising concerns or constructive criticism. They sell this as trust, but it's really just self interest.