AIA Malaysia (Insurance) Employee Reviews & Ratings

No work life balance, you will be expected to work 50 hours per week

Overall good and no cons

No flexible working is allowed

There are nothing to mention specifically.

Dynamic working environment with constant change

Very competitive market, have to have a strong warm market to survive well

Videos, tutorials and product launch slides can be old-fashioned seeming to cater to the middle aged and non savvy. Does not have the oomph factor like other insurance companies and banking institutions.

Self employment is tougher during recession

Less food to choose around thr

no cons for this company at all

May not be a very balanced life

Working hours would be long during quarter end.

Some people default in payments

if you are not self motivated, don't do it at all.

Long Hours Depending on immediate supervisor - some do not adopt the "No blaming culture"

Long OT hours, Quite challenging work, Never finish workload

Very long working hours in a day

working environment depends on what team you are in, senior offloading work to junior

Can be difficult if you aren’t good at making connections. Lower pay for industry.

Below market salary and benefits

Organizational culture is not fully developed

Unfortunately this is a company which should be avoided if you value your mental and physical wellbeing. They advertise a lot on how they are at the forefront of health and wellbeing, but they are truly unable to walk the talk with their own employees. Some departments are under severe pressure because they’re being managed by those who shouldn’t even be allowed to manage an intern. So these departments are under severe pressure mental torture leading to high turnover and people falling sick. On the other hand, the company is constantly coming out with different metrics and mandatory trainings to foster leadership, wellbeing, anti discrimination and anti harassment. But the problem here is that none of the very senior leadership actually believe on any of this. So they are at the forefront of discrimination, employee harassment, racism and creating improper work conditions for employees. For example, there are those who actively tell hiring managers to hire a certain gender, a certain nationality only, those from a certain background or employment only. The sad truth is that HR also knows these favouritisms and still follows through. One of the most sad things about this company is that, everyone is a tool of the top management. Everyone from employees, to HR, to the so called leadership teams and the top IT executive in Group management team are aware of what is happening. But they all turn a blind eye to these things. The moment they dislike someone, they could just let you go without any notice because they have the financial power to do so. So at the end of things, it’s not worth joining a company like this

Jobs typically require long hours and dedication

- Management is really bad at keeping talents as the team is constantly understaffed due to incompetence and inefficiency in hiring and also due to salary is lower than market. - adding work to the team without adding headcount and expect the lower working level staff to cover for all the extra work plus tasks from the vacancies - senior managers are incompetent and only talked their way up, when asked for guidance on new task from group or regulatory changes they will ask you to study yourself or ask other ppl. - no prospect of promotion unless you do something that is super extraordinary and able to make big presentations in front of directors, doing your usual job well doesn’t give you a chance of promotion - just don’t come unless you want to do clerical job and able to ignore all the work thrown at you until the management gives it to someone else that is more competent - you are rewarded for your competence by having more job and responsibilities without increment or promotion

The salary is too low

- Insurance coverage could better

Nothing really, left to take a personal career break

High workload and no work life balance.

Variable income - based on performance (ie number of policies sold)

Slow career growth and development

Reluctant to merge/change/transform business area that is saturating to uplift the performance

Working with CN causes communication issues with non-chinese speaking staff in MY.

Training is very general, mostly for information and basic skills

Processes were not in line with company values

Office politics are very noticeable, very high expectations for new joiners but lack of learning material. The work rate also high which need to do the overtime. The HOD wont side with you, he/she more prioritize the SG people first, whatever you said or give your concern about the job, they just wont listen, which the staff welfare is quite neglected. If the seniors or Manager did not like you, they will create an "environment" for you to willingly resigned from the company. Micromanage all the time. Very toxic working environment. No recommended. You can see the turnover is quite high, but the choice is yours. I've experienced once, never ever I will go back to those environment. Not good, 0%.

Not encourage for fresh grad as basic pay starts is very low

There is no direct hotline for consultants to check in with the back end team with regards to underwriting certain cases and servicing clients. Either you send in via email or request via their agent's portal to enquire the status or seeking assistance. Culture and immediate support depends on the agency you are working in. Company good doesn't equate to good team, management support and culture.

Internal competition may exist within agency

- Management troubles when delegating works and projects

worse pay compare to industry

Too complex due to highly regulated industry.

Ceo inconsistent with vision and execution. Exec Prioritisation not a strength

Promotions are limited. Bonus are up to 1.5x months. TONS of office politics. Depending on team, some of the seniors have a know-it-all character which is very un-welcoming,

Poor management, little amount of training and lacking technical support

After elite program, you better keep the momentum

Salary quite low considering as a BA

Complex stakeholders' management within the Company

Work load is little high

No comment on the cons

Not may expats and most of the staffs speak cantonese, dont care about non-native speakers Salary is a bit low compared to other mutual funds