Conservative company - Systems Engineer GEICO Employee Review

3.0
8 July 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you are looking for something stable and doing the bear minimum of showing up on time and completing routing tasks then you can work for this company for ever whether rotating or posting out to different jobs within departments or regional offices. Pay scale is not even average however, with their yearly bonus profit-sharing plan, salaries come up close to average.

Cons

Old school and old fashioned. Top managers and directors who have been with the company since they were teenagers drives the company in their own set ways. There is no proper planning in research and development and where techincal infrasture are heading. Managers and directors drive or dictates what systems are needed for their applications. As a result there are a number of products/software that are essentially doing the samething. Millions of dollars are recklessly spent acquiring duplicate software that is not useable and cannot be leveraged with any other application. Upward movement with Geico depends on either the individual is aggressive at searching for opportunity or simple you have to know the right person to network.

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Cons

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Pros

Organized in the hiring and training process

Cons

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