Good benefits, but not a great place for building a career - Anonymous employee Nodak Mutual Employee Review

2.0
3 Jun 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As stated above, the health insurance and retirement benefits are great for the industry, which is the main reason why people stay there so long (not because it's great). Work/Life balance is excellent as people clock in at 8 and leave at 4:30 (no sooner or later). Lower-level management are good people and try their hardest to make people happy, but every decision must be run up to the CEO for approval.

Cons

Some department heads are romantically involved with each other, which creates friction with the other departments trying to get their own department's concerns addressed. CEO is so disconnected from his actual employees, but he has to put his stamp of approval on everything, from small event planning to annual merit raises for individual employees. Since people have been there for so long, promotion opportunities are few and far between. If there weren't such good benefits, they would be hard-pressed to keep their long-term employees.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
21 Jan 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Pay, the new agent contract options are quite generous, if you can get anything through underwriting.

Cons

Almost everything. -can only write North Dakota residents -underwriting is strict and nitpicks every little detail -forget about commercial -training is a joke, mostly just underwriting reading the manual at you -don’t teach you how to prospect at all, so if you have never been in sales before good luck and even if you have insurance sales is a whole new animal -marketing yourself is almost impossible, you aren’t allowed to have your own landing page, they will nitpick your ad to death and won’t allow you to use effective marketing techniques -stuck in the past, they are a step behind or more like 10 steps behind other companies -depending on the contract you are on they give you a very small or nothing for rent, office expenses, co-op for marketing is impossible to get passed, and no stipend to help with sales associates or customer service reps -you are an independent contractor, so no benefits and higher taxes -CEO and most of the corporate office could not care less about the agents -there are more too but that’s a lot of it

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