I'm trying to figure out who is still leaving positive reviews for State Farm on Glassdoor. Seriously, the only thing I can come up with is that HR is spending some of their time trying to counter all the negative reviews left by genuine employees.
Honestly, who in their right mind can say that State Farm is a good company to work for right this minute?
To the last poster: You're confusing the "transformation we need" with the "transformation we're getting."
Most in Systems seem to agree that:
1) ISD was a bad idea and flooded Systems with people who did not belong here.
2) Systems is way too top heavy and has been for decades
3) Much of management hasn't a clue what's going on in the trenches
4) Roles need to be consolidated, made less specialized, made more industry standard.
And yes, some of that is happening. But here's what not happening:
1) People are not being held more accountable -- performance is NOT being used to determine who stays and who goes. In understaffed roles, poor performers are being retained. In Overstaffed roles, cuts are made without regard for performance so good and bad employees are being cut in equal measure.
2) Many of the managers being kept are part of the problem. Take a good look at who was behind CDE. Notice how many of the faces are the same? You think these guys are going to make things better?
3) Which brings me to my third point: the vast majority of the cuts are specifically because of CDE. They're certainly not about correcting 30 years worth of poor hiring and firing practices. Case in point: ISD. Case in point: All the other BA roles that worked just fine before CDE that were rendered ineffective after CDE.
4) Strategy is being obliterated. We're moving to a model where no one takes responsibility for shared systems and development teams will certainly collide with one another, often with mission critical consequences.
In Systems, this re-org is about fixing the mistakes they made 7 years ago. It's not about much else. And because they can't tell the baby from the bath water, they're throwing both out.
I work in Enterprise Technology and support the transformation, it’s sorely needed. SF is removing the layers of burocracy and the myriad decision makers that slowed us down before. And your eyes are shut if you couldn’t tell we have wayyyy too many BAs and not enough developers.
And I’m effected too, but our expense ratio is coming down, but it’s the highest in the industry and our biggest costs are people so yes, understand we need to become more efficient and reduce headcount. We’ve always s---ed at execution and never held anyone accountable and now that is changing which is good. Seriously folks, if you can see these changes are needed then your head is in the sand. Btw we did totally screw up the claims reorg and lost our best talent, although our JD power ranking improved, hopefully heads rolled and it will get better.
I see nothing wrong with how they treat employees.
No one cares what you think. Sorry, but the truth hurts.
I see nothing wrong with how they treat employees. The ones complaining are the ones that s---. Sorry but the truth hurts.
am tired of people being so negative on a company that has given an opportunity.
It's not like the company didn't earn those negative comments. Employees have seen firsthand the negative consequences of bad decisions that everyone except our clueless leaders seemed to know would fail.
Hmph! Just read an article in local news paper regarding SF lowballing 144+ fire victims whom lost EVERTHING in the Tubbs Sonoma-County Fires October 8th 2017. Read the press Democrat for further info. Oh., I don’t work for SF, but my home owners Inis is about due. Glad I read this/thesevboards. SF ain’t gonna write me a policy! Don’t mean to come across negative now...just says. Best to ALL.
I will say that State Farm is a solid company and is making changes to be more competitive. For many years SF has grown and now for employees that are mobile they need to either be mobile or look for another employer. There are good companies out there but there a lot of companies that are laying off employees such caterpillar J.P. Morgan , Bank of America. I am tired of people being so negative on a company that has given an opportunity. Look for the writing on the wall and there a lot of jobs out there.