Marsh & McLennan Companies Reviews

Pros

The Marsh brand is a big name in insurance and carries a lot of weight with clients, carriers, and others in the industry. There are lots of resources available to you if you know where to find them. You will have access to many talented and experienced colleagues.

Cons

Change comes slowly in a large organization like this. There is little thought given to the size or makeup of the book assigned to you. Work/life balance issues. Management ranges from excellent to incompetent (and everything in between).

Advice to Management

Your greatest assets are the Marsh name and your employees.

Pros

People centric like free transport, lot of parties and better hike

Cons

No learnings and no professional growth . Waterfall methodology followed

Advice to Management

None

Pros

Strong global branding and resources

Cons

Changes to business leaders every 2-3 years with no succession planning. No transparency in business decisions and poor employee communication on key changes to people, structure and business.

Advice to Management

Need to show commitment and obtain feedback from employees. The organisation has weak and inexperienced business leaders who will not take the business to the next level. Experienced managers are beginning or thinking of leaving the organisation in next 12 months. Too many expat leaders with short-term goals, leaving locals with inconsistencies in direction and structure

Pros

Reasonable salary Career progression Flexible working

Cons

Very bureaucratic and difficult to get issues sorted.

Pros

Very inclusive. Very gay friendly.

Cons

Raises don't keep pace with inflation, and they don't believe in promoting their own. Your career will die of neglect here.

Advice to Management

Every quarter you keep telling us how amazing the company is doing, and how we're making record profits, and every year you give us a measly raise that doesn't keep pace with inflation, especially in New York City. The longer workers stay at this company the poorer they become.

Pros

Average medical benefits, work would not follow you home at the end of the day.

Cons

I worked here for three years, started as a temp to perm, with promises of career opportunity. This has been one of the worst companies across the board I have ever worked for. The culture /environment was at such a level of extreme micromanagement and beaurocracy , that it was drilled into your head every day that one mistake or bad call could be your last. I never felt any sense of job security despite getting... "promotions" with no extra pay. You were given 45 minutes (and not a second over) off the phones for lunch and bathroom breaks. If you ever went over, you would get a write up. Management would scare you with vague and undefined "write ups and errors" with changing criteria every day to the point where you would no longer know up from down or how to do your job correctly. You never knew how to do your job any given day. A coworker that had used all of their sick days and "break time" for the day was forced to come in while sick. While asking management what they should do to not get written up if they were feeling sick, they found them a bucket "just in case". The people that work there are friendly, but they all know how bad it is to work there, and are finding their way out. I was told other than unattainable incentives, I would never see a raise there after three years. I left on my own terms.

Pros

Good culture, many opportunities, open leadership

Cons

Senior management can get disassociated due to feasible and non-feasible targets

Pros

Good Infrastructure, Friendly environment, Lot of opportunities

Cons

Lack of transparency some times