Aviva reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(2,577 total reviews)
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Amanda Blanc

83% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Aviva has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,577 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
1.0
Jun 28, 2017

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Pros

Great teammates. Aviva Fund helps the community by giving back.

Cons

Constant change. Little positive feedback. Reviews focus on negative and not the good work you are doing. Too many processes and procedures slow down the work flow. You push paper. Unrealistic demands and workload.

4.0
Jun 25, 2017

Returning Employee. Aviva has changed so much!

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Pros

The recruitment process was fair, relaxed and transparent. Whilst I was not successful for the role I had initially applied for, they did what most companies who say they'll keep your cv on file fail to do. They actually contacted me back within days and asked me to come in for an informal chat with a manager about a different role. Aviva seem to bend over backwards to get the right people on board, even if they had been initially unsucessful. The Aviva of 8 or so years ago probably would not have done this. Whilst a lot of the IT systems are still very much outdated on the front-end, there has been a lot of investment in the few years I have been away to create modern interface tools to simplify the end-user experience. Overall the systems are now about as easy to use as other insurers I have worked with. There is a lot of flexibility in certain business areas to choose a full-time working pattern that fits with personal/family commitments. Whilst you can still work 9-5 if you choose, you can for instance, choose a pattern of 3 x 12 hour shifts per week, leaving 4 days off. This is pure gold for people with families and seems to be very popular. There is a big emphasis now on customer experience. Every member of staff has equality of opinion as far as systems and processes go. If you feel something can be done better for the good of the customers, you are actively encouraged to let it be known.

Cons

Naturally due to the size of the company, there are a number of layers to the organisational structure. As such, it can be difficult to see immediate effects of feedback both to and from management. I haven't been back with Aviva to make specific comparisons with prior experience, however it must be said that any huge company will have some communication issues with staff.

2.0
Jun 20, 2017
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Pros

Free Parking, Flexible Work From Home, Training on a wide range of topics, Canteen

Cons

Bureaucratic, hierarchical management, legacy projects and technology, poor communication, far too many pointless meetings, remote area, inability to use tools used in rest of industry and forced to use what is available

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