Aviva reviews

Where to start... In Automatic Enrolment area there is a huge lack of focus. Not going to name individuals, but the problem is less the top managers, but the team leaders underneath them. Management propose ideas such as 'systems thinking' where admin monkeys like me are told we can make changes to the way we work....well this never happens. The team leaders are not equipped to lead, instead they make competent staff underneath them do their work for them. - Team Leaders are obstructive (there are exceptions to the rule) and your pay and progression depends on brown nosing - THE WORST THING: some employees have a sneaky trick (and this is rife through experienced members of staff), whereby they reduce hours to part time, but then do overtime so that they earn more than full-time staff even though they work less hours.

Clueless, highly political middle managers. Lots of them. Ruthless high level managers. Lots of third party contractors, usually offshore. Projects either don't get delivered or just take forever. Chaotic IT, especially in General Insurance. Frequent changes in strategy and no long term plan as maximum profit in the short term is the name of the game here. No job security, as they have a redundancy cycle every year. I have it straight from the mouth of a "Head" that management does not care about staff. Lately they have been closing excellent sites just to save on rent. If you're in IT and take pride in doing a good job, think twice. A lot of your time will be spent firefighting and dealing with workarounds they put in place when other workarounds fail.