Aviva reviews

- Pay typically is below market rates, and hiring into the business is challenging as a result - Complete inflexibility with what feel like arbitrary company rules at times (e.g. 50% office attendance) - Communication from Senior Leadership is often the opposite or not realistic compared to reality of day-to-day work - Unrealistic expectations for programs of work. Under-resourced departments (in terms of people) and a head in the sand mentality to strategic technology roadmaps. With tools (particularly security at the moment) just smacked in because why not, with unrealistic delivery timelines from the now outgoing CIO. - CIO seems exceptionally scared of Cyber attack (probably rightly) but reacting to their fairly whack-a-mole reaction to security findings is very tiring - Along side Cyber work, the business is going through a lot of change, and with such a legacy business it feels incapable of working in an agile way, even though they preach the agile manifesto, software delivery is somewhat agile (though more scrumban) but business completely works in projects, and is unwilling to provider persistent funding for teams - The whole company is plagued by death by meetings. People have calls to plan calls to plan calls. It’s incredibly fatiguing

- pay below the data science market - career progression is limited due to too narrow pool of more senior roles