Aviva reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(2,558 total reviews)
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Amanda Blanc

85% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Aviva has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,558 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Aviva 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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3K reviews
2.0
Oct 18, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Professional. Attentive to top line, pushing for top position in the market. Fairly open about where they want to be and how they intend to get there.

Cons

Ruthless managers (executive) level. Willing to halve redundancy benefits 2 weeks before cutting 1000's of employees. Closing much better sites across uk in order to save money in rent. Claimed the former was just a coincidence! Laughable excuse. Openly admitted closing better run sites (skills, customer satisfaction, retained business and processes) on a NOT best of breed approach. In other words, the decision was made purely on short term financial gain. It was also a coincidence that the director took a £7 million bonus that year and shareholders agreed stating the main reason being his "cost saving" achievements when merging businesses.

4.0
Oct 26, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Staff Benefits , for instance their insurance coverage is one of the best, also no MC needed for sick Leave (have trust in employee) Work Life Balance, (seldom have to work OT) Staffs there are friendly, less politics.

Cons

Too many corporate layers, hard to climb up. Starting salary range is not high as compared to other insurance company.

2.0
Dec 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Big company so may different roles, great benefits including great pension and shares matching schemes. Lots of great people on the ground floor.

Cons

What ever they say, you are just a number, a head count. No one is ever safe from redundancy or (sometimes worse) "talent moved" into a role you don't want to do or is created just to get you out of the way because its easier than sacking you (this seems to happen in management more often then you'd like to think!) The company has grown up very much in silos so even though there are opportunities of all shapes and sizes, your unlikely to get a shot outside of your business unit unless its a pretty ground floor role. The missed opportunity to bring people in from other areas with different views/experience is unreal, this leads to projects required to basically do the same thing, end up running in tandem with double the costs than if the business units just worked closer together.

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