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    Aon Reviews

    Updated 23 March, 2019
    2,413 reviews

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    Aon President, CEO, and Director Greg Case
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    Pros

    • "Work life balance was good for me being able to work from home more often than not after the first couple of years" (in 291 reviews)

    • "Flexibility to work from home in certain roles" (in 74 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Work /Life Balance is hard especially if you have to commute" (in 88 reviews)

    • "Low wages, no work life balance, and can miss out on breaks" (in 26 reviews)

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    1. "Excellent job"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      Pros

      Good compensation and working hours flexibility

      Cons

      Somewhat unpersonnal and slow to make changes

    2. "great team to work with"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Aon part-time

      Pros

      great atmosphere amazing environment good people to work with

      Cons

      long hours, sometimes can be a little exhausting

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    3. "Lots of work"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Aon full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      No shortage of work for technical teams due to frequent aquisitions

      Cons

      Hard to balance personal time. Compensation may not keep pace after you are here

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      "So, So"

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      Former Employee - Associate Account Executive in Edmonton, AB
      Former Employee - Associate Account Executive in Edmonton, AB
      Recommends
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Aon full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      -Great benefits
      -Fun workplace culture
      -Plenty of opportunity to move up
      -Great Lloyds insurance programs available that tier 2 brokerages don't have access to
      -Nice downtown office

      Cons

      -Managers are established account executives who still have books of business to services and new account quotas which leads to poor management practices
      -Awful commission structure: Execs don't make commission on renewals but if they lose accounts it deducts from their new business commissions.
      -Poor training practices
      -Depending on what department you are in, some are your typical old boys club where women get overlooked for promotion and mentorship.

    5. "ok company"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Aon full-time

      Pros

      great place to start career

      Cons

      repetitive work at the company

    6. "consultant"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends

      I worked at Aon full-time

      Pros

      You will learn a lot from this job
      Colleagues are really helpful and nice

      Cons

      low salary
      high turnover rate
      No work-life balance

    7. "Just a pawn in a larger game"

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      Former Employee - Director in Toronto, ON
      Former Employee - Director in Toronto, ON
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Aon full-time

      Pros

      Beautiful downtown office, decent pay

      Cons

      Got set up to fail from day one because my manager had a beef with his and used my role to settle it

      Advice to Management

      Emphasize performance over politics

    8. "Associate Broker"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Aon full-time

      Pros

      Not much pressure to work overtime, go above and beyond, or to work on weekends

      Cons

      Growth in company can be fast or very slow

    9. "Ok"

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      Current Employee - Director in Toronto, ON
      Current Employee - Director in Toronto, ON
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I have been working at Aon full-time (More than 8 years)

      Pros

      flexible hours, good location, ok office

      Cons

      low pay, archaic culture, massive BS.

    10. "anlayst"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Aon full-time

      Pros

      has good work life balance

      Cons

      they don't provide training program