AIG Reviews

Pros

they are good pay masters

Cons

management needs some serious improvement

Advice to Senior Management

need some real restructuring & systems organization.

Pros

Fairly lax place, although executive management has been trying (unsuccessfully) to make the place more dynamic.

Good benefits.

Cons

Low compensation.

Astonishing high turnover rate (especially in audit department), which is unheard of in such a bad economy.

This is where people come to die professionally.

Since Hank Greenberg was ousted, all the people who really knew the ins and outs of this behemoth have left.

Advice to Senior Management

You really need to evaluate senior management and their capabilities, and then make the required adjustments. Until then, you won't be able to attract really talented people.

Pros

1. great benefit, including excellent lunch places in downtown areas
2. work-life balance, great hours and no stress work
3. nice co-workers

Cons

1. very incompontent management in internal audit group, most of the management team are from another company and they don't understand the business and they just copy how the other company operates into the AIG internal audit
2. Unable to identify real issues in the process but focus on superfacial things

Advice to Senior Management

management should learn the business and the managers should have mixed experiences including public and private audit experience, need to hire compontent people as managers or directors in the group and stop hiring from the another company

Pros

salaries good, location,benefits,good for laid back people

Cons

very political , extreme networking required to get ahead, no vision

Pros

Large company, can learn different facets of the insurance, asset management businesses

Cons

The company is too big, too bureaucratic

Advice to Senior Management

Pay higher bonuses, create incentives

Pros

Take pride in working for a company

Cons

Lower pay compared to peers

Advice to Senior Management

Prioritize tenured employees over externals

Pros

Recognized everywhere in the world

Cons

Get lost in the crowd of ppl

Advice to Senior Management

no advice

Pros

Lots of changes leading to opportunities.

Cons

Work life balance and flexibility.

Pros

Good Benefits, good coworkers, good camarderie, upward mobility opportunities, good pay, good training, continued growth opportunities, great people and senior management.

Cons

tough corporate culture, no recognition of hard work, incompetent local managers, very heirarchial, no visibility to senior management, militant like culture

Advice to Senior Management

Please listen to your employees. Please let your employees be creative. Please curb the amount of unnecessary training we have to do.

Pros

They introduced a new work/life balance but its a struggle to use.
No long hours depending on job.
Flexiblity.

Cons

The performance review system is very unfair.
management hiring is very poor.

Advice to Senior Management

Scrap the performance review system.