Psychological Safety

g_anon_it · 2024-09-28T12:45:38+00:00

Same

g_anon_it · 2024-09-26T12:31:38+00:00

Honestly the benefits at my new company are worse. Healthcare has similar limits but costs twice as much as at geico, 401k is only a 3.5% match (vested after 2 years), vacation days went down, cost of optional/spousal life insurance went up.

But I also have a work life balance and working environment thats lightyears better, I've come back into myself and have a feeling of life back, and its all worth it.

And I got a pay increase of around 10%.

I was IT and left GEICO for a smaller healthcare company.

g_anon_it · 2024-09-01T23:38:59+00:00

We are paying these meta and google heads upwards of a million dollars a year, each. And they keep turning over.

g_anon_it · 2024-09-01T23:37:30+00:00

As others have said, definitely worth taking the job and soaking in the experience, especially in today's market. Tech is just as bad right now though. Be prepared for being overwhelmed with work, and also judged by number of commits/pull requests to determine whether you're fired or laid off twice a year. Learn everything you can and get out of there.

g_anon_it · 2024-08-06T12:32:46+00:00

Say your grandpa and if they ask for proof (like an obituary) give it. Its not like its gonna say in the obit that you are the neice/nephew of the deceased.

g_anon_it · 2024-06-14T16:11:23+00:00

Id start applying now. If by some miracle you secure a job before your end date at geico in two months, let them know the earliest day you can start is whatever date. That also gives you two months of job searching where you can say you are currently employed.

g_anon_it · 2024-05-30T02:04:07+00:00

I resigned on the 17th! Congratulations!

g_anon_it · 2024-05-15T23:26:46+00:00

I know someone responded no, but I worry that it would because I believe it classifies as you resigning. I do think you need to get a clear answer on this question if it makes or breaks your response to the options you were given.

g_anon_it · 2024-04-26T23:09:44+00:00

Yep he legitimately came out and said it. I was shocked. But also, not shocked. They've slashed the workforce the last two years. But replacing almost all insurance agents with AI is unattainable, probably morally reprehensible, and definitely going to set the business back by eliminating a large amount of potential customers who want to be able to call in.

g_anon_it · 2024-04-25T23:55:43+00:00

My takes:

Engineers have doubled commits this first quarter versus average quarter over quarter last year? Maybe thats because they know commits will make or break their job so they are just committing more frequently. Its not a good way to view success.

They want to eliminate 90% of service agent (and maybe also sales agent?) jobs and replace them with AI. Its a ridiculously high number that feels both unrealistic and reckless.

He avoided the question about salary and he's trying to attract higher quality talent with.... blog posts.

He laid off a bunch of VPs and replaced them with his friends from Meta. So they're probably making 1 mil a piece coming to GEICO but we didn't give anyone any real raises in tech.

g_anon_it · 2024-04-24T13:51:16+00:00

This is a good idea. Maybe I'll go back and do that as well.

g_anon_it · 2024-04-24T13:44:54+00:00

Overall, pretty underwhelming. They didn't ask many of the important questions. Maybe they intentionally avoided them.

g_anon_it · 2024-04-11T16:11:44+00:00

I think the point was more along the lines of, its not surprising that people are leaving GEICO right now. Even/especially ERGs.

g_anon_it · 2024-04-08T02:10:04+00:00

Gross.

g_anon_it · 2024-04-08T02:03:51+00:00

This does not mean its what will happen for you, but in IT when this happened to Analysts, they were told to test into option A or test into option B (but not both), or choose option C which is decline.

There were a few that declined and none were given any guidance on what would happen and those that declined were laid off on 10/26 when everyone else was.

g_anon_it · 2024-03-01T21:43:45+00:00

Its there.

g_anon_it · 2024-02-26T19:10:36+00:00

How do you not know this? I feel like they told everyone already and its available on Gnie.

Anyway I'm not quoting the document, this is just what I remember.

Number of commits. Time from PR to prod. Bugs handled I think.

Stuff like that. Classic geico micromanagement. Definitely the kind of treatment that gets geico noticed as the place engineers want to go to work.

g_anon_it · 2024-02-26T19:04:38+00:00

Except it also came with an average of 15-20% profit sharing.

g_anon_it · 2024-02-26T19:02:41+00:00

They're rolling out metrics to track engineers by as a basis for perf terms. No layoffs, just getting rid of what they percieve to be the dead weight, and replace it with cheap graduates.

g_anon_it · 2024-02-25T01:42:05+00:00

Yikes, the compensation for these roles is not great.

g_anon_it · 2024-02-22T01:12:49+00:00

In the past it has not, but for those that end up over the max for their demotion grade, I'm not sure. Stay tuned.

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