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3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(952 total reviews)

Greg Case

88% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

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1.0
May 13, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice area near the university and College Park, not much once you're inside. Occasionally they have food trucks but you get 30 minutes for lunch and generally have to wait 20 minutes for food and rush up to your desk to eat it. Their cafeteria was alright.

Cons

As a CSR, they have micromanaging goals beyond what I've ever seen in a call center environment. Impossible to advance and they do not foster growth well. You need to be near robotic to meet goals and their processes are confusing. You get one basic skill at first and they do not trust employees to handle much up front. There's no team environment and people at this company generally looked mad all day. You can tell a lot about a company's culture by walking through departments.... people are miserable and hate their jobs. The possibility of getting a new position is laughable. They gave an okay amount of time off but you could literally NEVER use it. People would purposely request days far in advance to block them off for themselves even if they had no PTO available since their systems don't have restrictions. I was requesting time off between June and February the following year and it was all blocked out.... for 8 months in advance!!! They do not allot for much or the teams abuse requests. Managers don't care about it regardless. I always felt trapped. It sounds silly but when you have PTO that expires every December and can't use any of it, it's not exactly a benefit. They have tons of health insurance options but it was like picking a Healthcare.gov plan.... high deductible low coverage and high rate. The BEST plan had a 2k deductible and 10% copay. Family rate was half my monthly salary. The cheap plans were all HSA based and terrible. There's literally nothing impressive about this company.

3.0
May 6, 2017

Good starter location

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The breath of experience at a large firm like Aon should not be under valued. You can learn a lot from working in a shop like Aon. The volume and complexity of the deals you will see is great and will broaden your experience. You will learn more in a year here, than you will in three or four years at a smaller brokerage purely based on volume. They also have good training, they do at least try to work on getting people trained and ready to do their jobs, it can be hard given the volume of work but you get what you put into it. The only reason I would recommend working here is to get yourself some experience, learn as much as you can and then use that knowledge to find a better long-term position elsewhere.

Cons

Nearly the entire leadership of the company is run by former McKinsey partners on down the line. The issue with this is the management is more concerned with chasing a quarterly revenue goal than they are with building long-term sustainable growth. How can you have a department that is growing by 35% year over year and not increase their manpower? You end up working the people you have to death and it creates an atmosphere and environment where you are required to be working at home and on the weekends. This isn't management consulting and we shouldn't be trying to turn Aon into a management consulting firm. People will work hard, but to expect them to choose between their families and their job is going too far in your quest to chase a quarterly revenue and stock price. Then to make matters worse, even though the group does well but because other groups in the division did not, only a few people get bonuses. So on top of working everyone to death, they get less than 2% raises and half of them get no bonus.

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