AXA reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(3,917 total reviews)
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Thomas Buberl

89% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

AXA has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,917 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The AXA 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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1.0
May 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Very flexible WFH if you're a diligent employee and discuss it with your manager. I can't speak to any other departments. Somehow they keep winning "Great place to work," so I can only assume other parts of the company are better.

Cons

Horrific culture. Jersey City office is half empty and no one smiles or says hello. Walking through the halls, I often had the experience of smiling and saying Hello and receiving only an odd look or averted eyes. Marketing is a sinking ship, the CMO was fired a year ago, the department was re-ogranized and broken up to report to the COO. She quit, and they named a new CMO the end of last year. Re-orged marketing twice in my short time there, but never changed out the talent. You can't just move around the puzzle pieces when things are so broken. Find the dead weight (there's lots of it) and/or the individuals who do not know who to be a part of a team (many fit the bill) and fire them. Bring in people who will actually get the job done - whether it's promoting top talent from within or searching from the outside. Marketing, as a function, isn't appreciated at all by top management, so the budget keeps getting smaller and they wonder why they don't get anything good out of them. Too many consultants -- every time you turn around there's another project that's being co-led by an outside consulting agency. They place NO trust in their own full time employees to get things done... then why are we here?

2.0
Jul 22, 2014

Disappointing

Recommend
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Pros

AXA had good benefits when I worked there. In fact, that's pretty much the only reason I stayed. I loved the holidays off and the vacation time. The medical benefits were pretty good also.

Cons

AXA is an okay place to work if you're just looking for employment but not if you're looking for advancement. The company trains and promotes only those employees whom they like. AXA is BIG on favoritism. As long as you kiss up to the managers you'll get what you want; but don't expect hard work, integrity and character to benefit you in any way, shape or form. I deeply regret having wasted so many years with the company. I was overworked and underpaid the entire time I was employed, but I stayed a/c the benefits and in hopes things would improve...which they never did. Even though I always reported to work on time, put in overtime when asked with minimal complaining, did my job well with no salary increase worth mentioning, I was set up by my manager and team leader so that I could be terminated because of my age....I'm approaching retirement. They couldn't find any fault in my performance so they had to fabricate something.

1.0
Jan 21, 2017

Scam!

Recommend
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Pros

You get sponsored to take the Series 7 exam. You can then use your license to get interviews at more ethical, prestigious, and respectable employers.

Cons

The management at AXA are a bunch of liars and crooks. They make absurd claims like you'll make $250,000 your first year. The pre-employment phase (PEP) is basically a slave labor racket which exploits the ambitions of recent college graduates. What they don't tell you in the "interview" process is that most people do not make it out of PEP and those who do make essentially no money for 5 months. Moreover, the amount of time and effort that they demand out of you during PEP is absurd considering that they pay you absolutely nothing. There are dozens of boutique firms in Manhattan where you can do the same exact thing and have significantly more autonomy. On your first day in the office, you find out that, in order to go on contract, you have to obtain licenses in multiple states which you have to pay several hundred dollars for out of pocket. Also, financial advisers at AXA are really just glorified insurance salespeople. The "advisers" at AXA push life insurance on everyone (even people who clearly don't need it) because that is where the most commissions are obtained. If you are interesting in selling stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, forget about working here. To be sure, private wealth management is a potentially lucrative field. If you are truly interested in the industry there are far more reputable firms that you can and should consider: Morgan Stanley, Meryl Lynch, UBS, Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Edward Jones, etc. Stay away from AXA.... far away!

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