Farmers Employee Reviews for Senior Network Engineer

What do you like about working at Farmers?

"Farmers is a great company to work for. The people are great and the hours don't feel long. Although, in IT we all work long hours."

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

"Very fast pace and require project management skills. Need to be very familiar with Cisco products."

What don't you like about working at Farmers?

"Policy and procedures regarding change control. From experience working at Kaiser there are better ways to reach high availability."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Never depend on vendors. If you have engineers then rely on your engineers or higher engineers you can rely on."

"Farmers was a great company to work for."

What do you like about working at Farmers?

"I really enjoyed working there and wanted to stick around longer. I helped merge Zurich Financial and Farmers' infrastructures and it was a lot of rewarding work."

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

"Since, Farmers IT belongs to Zurich Financial now, I would say apply to Zurich Financial in Schaumberg, Illinois."

What don't you like about working at Farmers?

"Zurich Financial invested a lot of capital in Farmers and replaced Farmers IT infrastructure with Zurich support from the VP down. I'm no business expert and don't understand the reasons behind it, I just know it was unfortunate for those of us in IT who liked working for Farmers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"My managers were great as well. I worked for two of them due to a restructure."