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    AIG Reviews

    Updated 9 December 2018
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    AIG President & Chief Executive Officer Brian Duperreault
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    Pros

    • "Great work life balance and smart people to work with" (in 277 reviews)

    • "I work from home 60% of the time" (in 196 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Work life balance is a challenge" (in 70 reviews)

    • "Senior management to tied to old-school methods" (in 99 reviews)

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    1. Featured Review

      "Nice environment and work-life balance, passion for innovation"

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      Current Employee - Senior Data Scientist in London, England
      Current Employee - Senior Data Scientist in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at AIG full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      -Highly innovative, start-up like environment
      -Opportunities to deliver solutions to both internal and external stakeholders
      -Efficient Management
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      Cons

      -Hierarchy can be fuzzy at times
      -Collaborations can be slow

    2. "Multinational Client Service co-ordinator"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in London, England
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at AIG full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Great place to work, lovely people

      Cons

      Did not have any issues

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    3. "Good place to work"

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      Current Employee - Compliance Officer in London, England
      Current Employee - Compliance Officer in London, England
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at AIG full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Great people
      Fast paced
      Lots to learn

      Cons

      Low pay
      Difficult to progress career

      Advice to Management

      Be more transparent

    4. Helpful (1)

      "Claims adjuster"

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      Former Employee - Claims Adjuster in London, England
      Former Employee - Claims Adjuster in London, England
      Doesn't Recommend

      I worked at AIG (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Good quality work
      Room for individuals to be innovative

      Cons

      Cliquey
      Poor pay
      Overworked and no support from management

      Advice to Management

      Listen to your teams more

    5. "Constant re-org, stellar executive pay whilst the company undergoing cost-reduction"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at AIG full-time

      Pros

      Good work-life balance, decent amount of autonomy

      Cons

      Decision-making concentrated amongst very few people, the rest don't dare to make decisions

    6. "Above Average"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at AIG full-time

      Pros

      Flexible Working arrangements Sustainable workload

      Cons

      Poor career advancement Management distant

      Advice to Management

      Spend more time nurturing junior reports, there is real potential there.

    7. "AIG Technology Analyst"

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      Current Employee - Graduate Technology Analyst in Croydon, England
      Current Employee - Graduate Technology Analyst in Croydon, England
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at AIG (Less than a year)

      Pros

      Brilliant training provided when beginning the role. A lot of support and money is spent on new graduates when they join the programme.

      Cons

      Huge company, sometimes as a tech analyst you definitely realise you’re nothing but a supporting function to insurance business. Tasks and work can be tedious and just spreadsheets.

      Advice to Management

      Provide training and certifications relevant to roles.

    8. "Senior Tax Manager"

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      Current Employee - Senior Tax Manager in London, England
      Current Employee - Senior Tax Manager in London, England
      Recommends
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at AIG full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Good company that care about employees. Good work life balance

      Cons

      Career progression and never any salary increases

    9. "Work"

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      Current Employee - Finance Manager in London, England
      Current Employee - Finance Manager in London, England

      I have been working at AIG full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Flexible working, good pay and benefits

      Cons

      Depending on team, could be quite intense

    10. Helpful (1)

      "Heavy-top structure"

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      Former Employee - IT Contractor in London, England
      Former Employee - IT Contractor in London, England
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at AIG (More than a year)

      Pros

      Relaxed, good work-life balance (however it depends on a team)

      Cons

      Old systems, not much investment in IT, too many systems.
      Teams work in silos, too much politics between the teams.
      Management do not listen to their employees and the employees have to deal with their poor decisions and mistakes.
      Managers too concerned about their careers rather than teams - in general if you are useful in their career progression due to skills then you are fine, the moment they don't need you get sidelined and not even get a thank you.
      Outsourcing and offshoring is the direction at the moment - other companies learned 10 years ago it is not a good idea.
      Management changes every 1.5 - 2 years and the strategy changes with them hence it is very hard to accomplish anything. Lots of initiatives are being started, only to be cancelled and started from scratch under a different name by another department that managed to get the C-suite ears. No one talks to people from the previous project hence the same mistakes are being made.
      Very poor communication between departments and this means in teams too.
      Frustrating place to work as it's very hard to get good relationships with other teams.
      Too much politics.

      Advice to Management

      Outsourcing and offshoring is not a good idea.
      New Global system is required for the company.
      Reduce a footprint of tools used - decide on strategic reporting tools for instance rather than using all.
      Ask employees for input into your decisions.
      Improve communication.
      Reduce toxic politics.