Skip this place if you are an experienced IT professional - Senior Applications Analyst GEICO Employee Review

GEICO is an insurance company that specializes in cutting out the middle man and using trained telemarketers to sell insurance. The place is a butts in the seat telemarketing mentality that pervades every aspect of the company. If you are an experienced IT professional get ready to be treated like 12 dollar telemarketer. A great deal of micromanaging goes on. But the speciality of the place is trying to intimidate and bully employees with criticism. People who do best in IT there are the high school graduates that have never worked anywhere else. There is a serious lack of quality both in the management and IT staff there. There is also a great of flat out lying in hiring. A manager will describe a position as being one thing and when you take the position and find out it is nothing more than a spreadsheet jockey positon. I stopped recommending the company because I saw IT pros leave after 3 to 6 months. Before taking a position at GEICO to get a reference from a former employer of the manager. Avoid Claims, any of MSI or Policy positions at the company, these are some of the worst lead groups in the company. The company also knows that they have a serious problem with employee ownership, retention and morale. Work-life balance is a very low priority at GEICO. No leave allowed for the first 6 months on the job. There is very little adoption of Agile since Agile values don't go well with micromanaging culture of GEICO. Senior IT management have an a a background in law and sales and not IT and it shows.