29 Jan 2016
Unfortunate place to work
Anonymous employee
Veterinary Pet Insurance Reviews
3.1
35% would recommend to a friend
Scott Liles
40% approve of CEO
30% positive business outlook
Veterinary Pet Insurance has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 27 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Veterinary Pet Insurance employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).
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27 reviews
4.0
22 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
The good : once you start working here for over a year, you are pretty much set. The company "almost never" let go someone, I know few people around my area that pretty much DO NOTHING, I repeat DO NOTHING during the day but surprisingly they've been working here for years. Job security for the winner. Salary raised every year, depends on performance review obviously. Company really lay-back, family comes first. Boss pretty much understand when something urgent comes up, you can go w/o any question asked.
Cons
The bad : not much room to grow UNLESS you willing to play the "politic card". You pretty much will do almost the same thing year-after-year. Forget about learning something new, you almost-most-likely won't learn exciting for a while. The ugly : ughh....dum dum dum, the IT Ops department is so behind-in-technology. Been working here for few years now, there is still no Wifi access, they've been "bragging" about "WIFI COMING SOON" for a while but not even a little progress seen so far. Technology is about 3 years behind....seriously.
1.0
25 Jul 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Formerly Veterinary Pet Insurance, Nationwide Pet Insurance is a Jekyll and Hyde company. Once the industry leader with 70% market share, it's now scrambling to remain relevant because of poor management decisions and smarter competition. It finally offered a Percent-of-Invoice policy six years after its chief competitor reinvented the market, and it truly is the best product currently on the market. The Nationwide brand is a strong one and should help stabilize the company. Benefits are average. Marginal performers who 'manage up' well will likely find a comfortable place to work. It's just big enough that a mediocre employee can probably hide for a few years and collect a paycheck.
Cons
Unfortunately, it stills sells its old products too - highly profitable for the company but typically a poor value for consumers. As an employee, you're forced to offer the swill to unsuspecting buyers and that can be painful if you have any integrity. Senior management is still largely staffed by career VPI employees who subscribe to an authoritarian mindset where blind loyalty and the ability to toe the company line are the only requirements of the job. Competence and creativity are not only unwelcome but actively discouraged. Inexperienced sycophants are the only people promoted from within - and it takes a terrible toll on the rest of the employees. Incompetent, petty managers make mistakes here that would never be tolerated in a more competent company. Nationwide is a mutual company, which means its customers actually own it instead of shareholders. There must be good aspects to being a mutual company but I never saw them. Internal technology is laggard - almost laughable. Innovation, non-existent. It's where good ideas go to die. The promise for managers seems to be lifetime employment, and that's never a good thing if you need to stay competitive. If you consider yourself a good or better contributor you will stick out like a sore thumb here and will likely end up depressed or worse. The management team has a bunker mentality and adversarial relationship with the workers that is totally out of touch with any modern white-collar workplace. And yet the same team persists year after year.
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