JRW Associates Reviews

4.0

73% would recommend to a friend

(80 total reviews)

Randy Willis

73% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

JRW Associates has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 80 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The JRW Associates 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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80 reviews
1.0
28 Aug 2015

Beware of this place!!

Recommend
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Pros

At the time, it was a convenient location from where I lived. Other than that, absolutely NO pros to this place.

Cons

Where to start? The management is unbelievably bad, and the owner is a psychotic, megalomaniac, incompetent, abusive, homophobic racist who has absolutely NO regard for his employees. He would literally throw things at employees when he was throwing a fit, which was more often than not. He would scream at the top of his lungs at anyone and everyone, and he is abusive beyond belief. I can't believe he hasn't been sued by someone yet. He said the company was in trouble and yet when he did manage to show up in the office he would be late, take a long lunch, and then leave early, but he would yell at everyone for not doing their job and blame the failings of the company on them. I cannot warn anyone enough to stay away!! The turnover rate is very high, because either people leave as soon as they are hired or are fired for whatever reason the insane owner thinks. No one is given the tools they need to succeed, and I saw the management force people to quite by removing job responsibilities from them and then screaming at them for not doing anything. I think this place is the perfect example of the Asylum being run the lunatics. This is the absolute worst work experience I have ever endured. I wish there was an option for "0" stars, or even negative stars. I really can't stress how awful this place is. This is where career dreams come to die a slow, abusive death.

1.0
14 June 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The CEO has a beach house, and during the summer he is not there as often. My experience made me appreciate a good boss, and better to handle small stressers in my new job, because my best day at JRW was still equivalent to my worst day at every other job I have had. They do somehow attract great, talented, people that most of the time are great to work with, however, the good ones don't stay for long because they realize they can do better (which is true).

Cons

INSANE CEO. If he messes up, he places blame elsewhere. If an employee messes up the smallest thing, he rants on and on and makes an example of them in front of the whole company. The only weeks that didn't involve him SCREAMING to someone for no reason were the weeks he was on vacation or at a conference. He insists on meetings after meetings that are pointless and doesn't understand when something he asks you to do takes longer than he thinks it should. He is so computer illiterate that he can't even type, and therefore believes anything computer related should take no longer than 1 hour. Extremely strict on PTO, and even if you have nothing to do insists you stay until 5:00. I personally felt like I wasted every second there, and woke up with panic attacks during my time there, even when I have no history of that. The whole family works there, and preferential treatment is extremely obvious to his son and daughter. I would not recommend this place as a workplace OR as an employee benefit firm. They say they are experts in employee benefits, but do not understand that employees really just want to be respected and praised (and awarded) when they do well.

1.0
15 Oct 2013

USE CAUTION!

Recommend
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Pros

Can't think of any....Well, office is located in a nice building ;-)

Cons

Awful management, unorganized systems in place, no regard for their own clients.

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