AIA Malaysia (Insurance)

So so. Toxic environment. Manager and TL sucks. Don't know how to do their job and had processor to do their job, credit goes to them.

Little meeting rooms to share with the entire building

HR, particularly certain HOD whose name starts with D with plenty of experience in the company, behaved as discipline teacher in high school, discourages employee engagement by selectively enforcing rules to employees that makes people wonder if sexism, racism and other discriminatory mindset is a common practice among HR personnel. For a company that values Gallup results, complaints to HR does not yield positive improvements but only lead to spread of misinformation to uninvolved parties. No other place to go other than Glassdoor to post a real comment, and can’t even rate a low Gallup score given it’s tied to KPI. Although I’m a loyal employee, several incidents made me question why am I still here.

Hierarchy and silos prevent much change. Restricted by job title/level to get things done.

Do your research before accepting the offer, particularly if the hiring manager is the SDOA of A3 cluster. Old school management style. She will conduct sales meeting every Monday morning which lasts around 2hrs (other clusters’ meeting only last around 30mins max) where she will take turn to “grill” everyone in the team. You will have to prepare your sales forecast and come up with justifications. This is distribution sales, not direct b2c sales. There are many factors which are beyond control but she can’t seem to understand. On top of all these, favoritism is clearly shown to certain BDMs in the team. Definitely a red flag for whoever is considering to join Tied Distribution.

Push for ILPs to get comms

Working hours is long, till late night.

When you quit you always have bonus that being calling back

Unstable income Operate on your own Work hard and get paid hard

Leadership now is too political, hard to climb up the ladder since you need to follow what they want and sharing your thoughts is sometimes seen as “fighting back” instead of brainstorming, & yearly employee performance grades are usually not based on how well you do the job, and there are a few upskilling opportunities.