Aon reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(7,342 total reviews)

Greg Case

88% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Aon has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 7,342 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Aon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Assurance industry (3.6 stars).

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7K reviews
1.0
Dec 16, 2017

Stay away from construction services group

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Pros

Questionable middle management but non management staff is wonderful. Great place if you came out of their program, or has been there a long time.

Cons

No structure, just being it mentality. Middle management aren't professional, spend too much time gossiping. No proper training if you don't go through their college grad program. No management accountability, they take your glory but shame you publicly when things go wrong.

2.0
Oct 2, 2017

Too many changes

Recommend
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Pros

- great location - good place for entry-level positions - good resources for training if you can find them - great people to work with

Cons

- Aon acquisition resulted in benefits being taken away - inconsistent and dishonest feedback from managers - limited opportunities for professional growth - daily tasks unfulfilling and uncreative - lack of upward mobility, generally hires externally - lack of good upper management

3.0
May 6, 2017

Good starter location

Recommend
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Pros

The breath of experience at a large firm like Aon should not be under valued. You can learn a lot from working in a shop like Aon. The volume and complexity of the deals you will see is great and will broaden your experience. You will learn more in a year here, than you will in three or four years at a smaller brokerage purely based on volume. They also have good training, they do at least try to work on getting people trained and ready to do their jobs, it can be hard given the volume of work but you get what you put into it. The only reason I would recommend working here is to get yourself some experience, learn as much as you can and then use that knowledge to find a better long-term position elsewhere.

Cons

Nearly the entire leadership of the company is run by former McKinsey partners on down the line. The issue with this is the management is more concerned with chasing a quarterly revenue goal than they are with building long-term sustainable growth. How can you have a department that is growing by 35% year over year and not increase their manpower? You end up working the people you have to death and it creates an atmosphere and environment where you are required to be working at home and on the weekends. This isn't management consulting and we shouldn't be trying to turn Aon into a management consulting firm. People will work hard, but to expect them to choose between their families and their job is going too far in your quest to chase a quarterly revenue and stock price. Then to make matters worse, even though the group does well but because other groups in the division did not, only a few people get bonuses. So on top of working everyone to death, they get less than 2% raises and half of them get no bonus.

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