Great Eastern Life Assurance (M) Berhad Employee Reviews & Ratings

Insurance is a rejection job

Due to its age, certain issues may take longer to resolve. And unlike a younger company, it is less aggressive and innovative preferring status quo. While old styles may be time tested, business environment is changing continuously.

Heavy workloads, no work life balance

No cons, Super good company

Slow Underwriting team. Strict during application

IT & software supporting not so strong.

Bad working culture, toxic team, bias top management, micro manage,

Stress, outdated, high workload, dependent

Long working hours and heavy workload

Did not provide relationship building activities constantly.

Expect to be exploited Company that practices non-empathic, and micro managing. Bias Pay for your own psychiatrist. Prefer to have no family commitments employee Loosely managed strategy and company growth. Calculative managers and non-emphatic Ask employee to take MC for last few days of employment because there is no work for resigned employee. Many contract employees and outsourced from GELM and other outsourcing agency. Multiple systems for leave application, payslips etc., front end system, core system. Forever got system problem not willing to invest for new system. Core system just implemented where other companies already use for over two decades. When C-level leaves the company, management ask employees to contribute for the “departure gift” When you are “useless”, department head will not treat you as visible.

High Work Load especially year end

No work life balance. need to work until night and weekend because of crazy workloads, micromanaged bosses ( love to please upper management). for them, everyday is money. but, still depends on your dept. some bosses are kind .

pressure for sales and bad software which hinders sales

Can be tiring sometimes especially when we first start out

Slow in adapting and risk averse.

I dont really hv ant to say

No direction from management for career path

too much work to do everyday

“deep-seated cultural issues” within the firm.

-Incompetent (in other words, useless), micro-managing tyrants as bosses -Hawk eyed bosses who are so free they will monitor and critique your every move - Low entry barriers hence hiring of useless bosses -Low standards hence useless bosses are here to stay and farm till retirement, taking credit for the work of their underpaid slave subordinates - Low regard for human life -Unofficial Company policy that OT is a requirement -Free labour. Paid OT is just fluff on employment contracts, never executed in real life. Be prepared to offer your servitude. -Unofficial Company policy to do jobs out of your scope. If it affects your main duties, just OT more to make up for it. -Management will milk everything they can out of 1 staff and work you to the bone, perfect if you enjoy working 2 or 3 persons' worth of work, at the speed of the combined force of 5 persons.

It is not a basic pay. It is based on commission, therefore, you need to work hard at early stage but once you have established well your insurance business then nothing can stop you from achieving your dream goals.

Lack of strategic direction, management have zero technical knowledge about the teams they are heading, employees rewarded based on relationship with upper management and not actual performance, lack of data security, extremely poor IT infrastructure for a leading financial institute, retirement company (very little young people, many older people with a stuck mindset who are dragging the company down with them)

Lack of foresight from senior management Last minute direction and dive into it

Not very dynamic management.

Can provide bas transport from lrt to office

Have to work doubly hard for the high remuneration as it is a sales role after all

Slow approval process as need to involved many layers of approving.

No, overall is very good

Lower salary not the best company to start with

Almost everything and anything, all

No apparent issues with the company

Section Head lazy and ridiculous

Work life balance is hardly to achieve

It is located far from the city. Too much paperwork and can be rigid sometimes i.e. red tape