Nationwide Insurance Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Great company, but lacks a strategy other than doing everything mediocre."

"I worked at Nationwide from 2006 until 2012, in various roles. During the early years, while developing my career, I looked forward to moving up in the company hierarchy. As my career progressed, the more I interacted with mid- and senior- level executives, I found myself very discouraged. I ultimately left because I did not want to grow up to become what I found there."

"Nationwide was a fantastic place to work. I loved the environment and my supervisor was really good. Had me working on real world problems and could see the results. That can be rare for an intern."

"Nationwide is a solid company with the attention to quality of code and responsible coding. Their SDLC cycle is sometimes too slow for my taste, but this is needed to limit the risk that is often very substantial as its monetary and PR value. For this reason, the code undergoes exhaustive review and you get detailed specs and requirements."

"I've been working for Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company for 4 years. They have a very friendly environment and they are very customer focused, so our transition to the support team should be very detailed so that they can do a better job to support the customers. The company employs over 36,000 employees and the headquarters is located in Columbus, Ohio."

"As I heard about this company it's very good and deliver quality products."

"Nationwide is a great company to work for. I have worked there for 4 years and 8 months. Nationwide is always looking for ways to improve and constantly changes. It is great being your own boss and establishing outside referral sources. I recommend anyone who likes to politic to work for the insurance Industry."

"It's a great place to work. But only if have grown in the company. People are not very open to the idea of new people."

"This company really cares about their employees and customers."

What do you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"The company is very customer focused, has clear goals, supports their employees and there are many opportunities for advancement."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be professional, dress professional, come prepared, speak intelligently, as questions, be very interactive and upbeat."

What don't you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"It's a big company so there is a lot of red tape. Also, the company tends to promote people who do not have any experience. The company looks for natural talent and leadership ability more so than technical expertise."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Look for more technical expertise in the people that you promote to upper management positions, not just leadership ability."

What do you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"There's an emerging Lean / Agile / Six Sigma movement within the company, and it's breathing new life into the IT department."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you're early in your career, Nationwide is a great place to go. If you're say 15 years in or so, it's not so great."

What don't you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"There's too much red tape to get even the simplest things done. No one is incentivized to do the right thing, and everyone is incentivized to do things right. Senior management in IT never gets their hands dirty, and consequently often has no idea what's actually going on. Waaaaay too much focus on job descriptions and way too little focus on making sure the customer is being taken care of FIRST."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would immediately put the entire company through Lean / Six Sigma / Agile training, and make it VERY clear that you can either get on the bus right now, or you will be run over by the bus. Enough fooling around trying to make 20,000 people with vested interests in the status quo happy."

What do you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"It was a well organized structured job with great benefits."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know how to sell and have a great deal of customer service."

What don't you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"The Incentive plan structure was not well managed in order to get the commission pay."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To learn more about the system applications in order to have a clear and accurate answer for the sales employees."

"NW is a grea place to work."

What do you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"The people. There is a genuine feel of teamwork here."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"NW is a great place to work if you like diversity of thought and people, Its values drives the company. So, try to highlight your personal values."

What don't you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"Not a big fan of the method of compensation. Caters more to the median performer."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try to identify talent and grow it. Also try to make the pay match the performance and not bring everything down to a a common band based compensation system."

What do you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"Work life balance. Job security. Growing department. Great people to work with."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Certain areas are geographically isolated. Don't expect to do marketing outside of Columbus. Same goes for nearly any leadership level above director."

What don't you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"Leaders are promoted based on experience, not vision or qualifications. Lack of middle manager strategic discipline."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Product differentiation. Something no one would/could copy until we it was too late to catch up."

What do you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"Great pay, great benefits, possible advancement with relocation, assisting customers and co-workers."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Learn your job and become excellent at it fast; stay in the spotlight, looking for opportunities to market yourself."

What don't you like about working at Nationwide Insurance?

"Outdated technology; opportunities for advancement seem to be given to those who are interactive with supervisors, not necessarily those capable of the job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Find opportunities to increase and update the technology used by associates."