Not what I expected - Senior Internal Auditor AIG Employee Review

1.0
Jan 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

New offices and free coffee?

Cons

We are promised to be the next auditors of the future. This does not translate to the structure, training or leadership we have received. Work/Life Balance. Management is from New York and not accustomed to the Charlotte commute. Very strict about working hours even though we are salary employees. We all stare at our screens to appease management to show we “worked” till 5. We are all adults and perfectly capable of doing the work when it is needed, now I have to sit in traffic because I sat at a desk doing nothing for management. Training is not sufficient, barely covers the job, role responsibilities, systems utilized. Most of the NY auditors are leaving the company in March. Shadowing and learning from these auditors would of been highly beneficial. This was never organized. Not sure what is going to happen when these NY auditors leave the company as new team members are barely trained. Guides are outdated, there is not a specific learning and development dedicated team. Realistically they should of completed their mass hiring 6 months before phasing our their NY team members. We should of been shadowing, partnering, utilizing these individuals - instead we received sub par training, inflexible work schedules and low morale. This is all covered up by shiny new offices. On my second day I was told by one member of leadership that this place was a revolving door. Now I see why.

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Cons

If you’re considering applying, make sure to ask in the interview: Will there be someone else doing what I am doing? If not, the team is understaffed and all the responsibility will rest on your shoulders. Even with the vacation days, your days will be swamped and stressful. It is NOT worth it. Out of curiosity, I’ve been looking at their latest job postings for my department and there is so much packed into one role, it’s wild. You can tell the person they’re trying to replace clearly wore too many hats and it will be a long struggle to fill this position. Are my team members working in other time zones? You can face several early morning calls based on their hiring pattern. Some teams will require annual or quarterly traveling. Over the years, the company is hiring mainly white managers domestically in the USA, while lower roles are hired abroad or contractors. Meetings to accomodate offshore hours are brutal. What percentage of the day is in meetings? If you don’t have time to deliver on output because of meetings, you will likely have to stay late to complete the work. The company seems to hire very good talkers but not a lot of do-ers. Several meetings involved more people than needed. Managers seem to think “if I have to suffer through this meeting, everyone has to suffer”. If managers are fortunate enough to delegate the deliverables, they can handle some meetings by themselves. Who would be handling my onboarding and training when I start? If it is not your direct manager, your early success will be at the mercy of your peers who understandably are not responsible for onboarding you. Sadly, I have observed that the people-managers do not like to manage people. In fact, they value those that manage the manager and the team’s roadmap plan for them. The managers don’t seem to want to oversee the team or their deliverables. If there is a job change (salary, position, hours) how is that communicated? In my experience these things were not communicated or consented to. The change would apply in the system and you would have to conform accordingly.

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