Vantaggi
Incredible financial strength allows opportunities to work in any field from grounds keeping to machine learning. Thousands of amazing employees. Regular access to latest information, conferences and continuous education. Excellent pay and benefits; Flexible scheduling (remote working no longer supported). Was at one time very employee focused (this has since changed) Enormous campus; Focused on health and wellness; Many outside activities sponsored by company; Company waterpark (Bloomington, IL only); Many local and national discounts (cars, computers - note no discounts for insurance products from SF); Top P&C Insurance company; Enormous Brand Recognition! Incredible talent; Great mentoring and development opportunities - some of the top talent in the nation.
Svantaggi
Very artificial culture fueled by fear of strong hierarchical structure. Employees fear higher levels and reach biased to avoid conflict. Company is extremely focused on targeted diversity (quota's of diversity in each level), therefore is not truly equal opportunity. Promotions are given on who you know, not what you know. Ideas from top external hires & contractors are more valued than by internal subject matter experts. Very fixated on old business model despite industry shifting away. Remote workers are not supported; Ad-Hoc situations are at discretion of management. Performance feedback process is subjectively assigned. CEO was promoted despite being responsible for a very negative impactful 3 year initiative that destroyed morale. Company performance has declined rapidly since the transition from Ed Rust Jr. - in a public company this would not be acceptable. A very large amount of resources do not possess modern skillsets. Insane numbers of acronyms, there is an Enterprise Glossary where you will see two, maybe three identical acronyms that are all internal proprietary!