Aviva reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(2,559 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 2,559 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
Nov 6, 2021

Not as caring as it seems

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay is alright if you’re living with your parents and just pay board money. If you’re buddies with the leadership, you’ll probably get a pay rise or promotion based on nothing but the fact that you’re in their circle. You get sick pay and links to well-being help and that, but you’ll probably get disciplined, warnings or dismissal if you are off sick for too long.

Cons

Where to start? You won’t get anywhere unless you brown nose or are buddies with the leadership. Doesn’t matter how good you are at your job, without that, you won’t get anywhere or be recognised for anything. You will be discriminated against in their smart Aviva way of trying to cover it up. You pregnant? Yeah you’ll have the rainbows and glitter shaken over you with the paid maternity/paternity leave, but they’ll also try and push you out of the job. They’ve tried to get people who have disabilities or mental health issues to quit to avoid law suits of sacking them, under no reason whatsoever. If you’re having a hard time, don’t count on any real help. Sure the perks and benefits are good, but are they worth the lack of care, over worked and discrimination? Not one bit. They’ll start resigning people and label it redundancy” then a month later their job will be on Indeed. Want to work from home permanently as you have the ability to do so? Nah can’t do that, got to come into the office 60% of the time for no reason what’s so ever. Dogs? Childcare? Mental health worries? Nah not a thing for them to care about.

1.0
Nov 4, 2018

Politics

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Pros

Flexible working, not much else.

Cons

Everything seems to happen in Norwich. Working in London means you don't get invited to meetings, you get slowly alienated from the projects and ultimately it is a lost cause. Egos thrive, perception counts for everything.

1.0
Jun 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

None, they make out they care, they do not.

Cons

I am not usually one to write a bad review about a company, but I don't want this to happen again. To anyone. When I started work here, it was perfect, they had told me how caring and great they were and it seemed so at first. Until A) my "manager" decided he did not like me. And B) they decided I was too much hard work with my disability. I was taken from on warnings or meetings to outright dismissal, for a load of ridiculous reasons that my team leader had pulled out of thin air. I was told the day before I went on holiday, to be fired the day I came back. Absolutely awful. The middle management is a joke. My manager didn't even know how to do my job, yet was meant to lead us. The team was lead by another colleague who was not meant to and was not paid to. I am not the only one mistreated by this manager, who became a manager by accident because the old one left. He was not and is not fit for this role. I feel like I have been discriminated against, and treated extremely unfairly. I am afraid I CANNOT recommend that anyone works here. Even worse if you are female or disabled.

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