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Crump Life Insurance Services

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Crump Life Insurance Services Reviews

3.1

59% would recommend to a friend

(194 total reviews)

Brian Winikoff

68% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Crump Life Insurance Services has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 194 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Crump Life Insurance Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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194 reviews
3.0
21 July 2021

Spinning its Wheels

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Teammates; there are some wonderful people you'll get to know working at Crump. Benefits; they are standard for most companies owned by banks the size of Truist but are still very nice. Remote capabilities; much of this stemmed from COVID last year, but is lasting after the fact for most positions. Growth potential; there is a lot of movement within the company right now but in general, Truist included, there is a lot of opportunity.

Cons

It's hard to write too much bad simply because I joined Crump with the assumption I'd spend my career growing there. I was among the most upset when I came to realize I couldn't continue working at the company and needed to seek other employment for the sake of my health and my personal relationships. Nearly everyone at Crump works hard and means well - there's a strong focus on building forward and improving technology (admittedly for operations - because Sales had some updates years before and Operations remained woefully behind). But frequently, they miss the mark and their incredibly lean hiring puts undue burden on all teammates, but especially leaders (you know, the ones who don't make overtime). Some teams will absolutely rely on mandatory overtime, driving large groups of a department to leave like dominoes falling. Other teams will keep piling more and more work on with a shrug and "try to get it done best you can". Caseloads of 200-300 with agents calling daily for updates. This is put under the guise of being temporary, but continued for many years and only seemed to worsen. Nearly every time a manager or above left the company, the positions were 'shifted' and someone absorbed the role - rather than filling it. Truist's grip on the company became increasingly obvious. Everybody frequently talks of how obvious it's become Crump is just another investment they want to squeeze as much profit out without truly making the best choices for the business. If profits can stay the same (for now) losing 10% of employees; that's good and fine. Until it's not, and the notoriously low salaries for many employees cause stronger and stronger employees to quit. I wasn't the first, or the last, of the 2021 turnover wave. The biggest issue is the lack of transparency from C-level and upper management down. It just doesn't exist. Individual contributors and first level supervisors very occasionally get a glimpse of honesty, but more often than not leadership (upper management +) will glide over issues or flat out lie. The assumption is that teammates don't frankly talk to one another, and they do. It lends to a company that doesn't believe or trust their management (as many previous reviews have similarly stated). Too much micromanagement as well from certain leaders to leaders. If your function has you reporting to a C-level or similar, you probably aren't as intimately familiar with the team goings on as the supervisor or manager.

2.0
14 Mar 2023

How the mighty have fallen.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent benefits, PTO, Holidays and sick time Remote work Incentive compensation for most positions

Cons

I came to Crump many years ago, fleeing a toxic environment. Sadly, I have started to notice many of the same red flags I once ignored there at Crump. Management is increasingly compromised of salesmen promoted beyond their skill sets. This team may be good at sales, but many are truly terrible managers. Micromanagement is the norm and team reminders are sent in place of addressing specific concerns with individual bad apples. A lot of time and energy is put into educating about DEI topics, but when issues arise in practice, sexism and ableism reign. (I'm sure other ism's but these are my personal struggles) On more than one occasion I have had to sit in a meeting listening to men discuss my time, without being given any opportunity to speak. Other employees, female and male, have mentioned these moments and expressed concern that women are not heard. Much lip service has been paid to better understanding neuro and mental health issues. However, rather than providing accommodations and assistance when misunderstanding arises due to one of these concerns, employees are scolded, asked to improve or told to calm down. While we are encouraged to let management know any way they can assist or ideas we have to improve process, these concerns fall on deaf ears. Suggestions are invariably met with an explanation of why it can't be done or won't work. I feel gaslit constantly. I see other people mentioned layoffs. From my view, people just keep disappearing. No mass communication has been provided to address this and there has been no explanation to teammates who work closely with these individuals. Customers are not being warned and the emails are simply being shut off, triggering a bounce back that leaves the customer scrambling to find a new contact. I'm hoping the Crump rapture is over, but I wouldn't be shocked if it continues. Finance SERIOUSLY needs to work on more accurate forecasting. As best I can tell, goals for each year are last year + a randomly assigned percentage. Rarely do these goals take economic, industry and agency conditions into consideration. If a department has never made goal, maybe the goal was the problem. We are desperately understaffed company-wide. For context, I felt this way prior to layoffs. It's really bad and hitting SLAs is basically impossible. Sales is deadset on phone based sales. There is not a single metric to track the number of emails sent and received each day, despite this being the modern primary form of communication. However, number of calls is tracked like the Dow Jones and explanations are requested any day this number drops. Case load is unreal. There is no conceivable way to do a quality job and provide meaningful service to everyone. Many customers are left to make do with what they think is right or are forced to call carriers when they can get no response from our teams. We are pushed to our absolute limit. I could go on for a lot longer, but I won't. I came here because I'm not aware of a way to address all of this internally, since HR is extremely hands off with us. I will say that I know for a fact that many employees are suffering mental and physical health concerns due to stress and there are no life boats on the horizon.

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