Some teams are not worth considering - Data Scientist AIG Employee Review

2.0
Jun 18, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are good: for example they offer good life insurance. Many vacation days: about 24 days for new full time employees. Pay is relatively good: one of the reasons I went there in the first place.

Cons

High turnover: for a while I witnessed 1 data scientist resigning per week. There were just about 50 of them at the time. It was like a bus making stops so people can jump on and off. Very volatile: about 2 re-org every year. So you are out of luck if nobody in senior management counts you in his/her circle. There's little growth room for people who do the actual work because you don't have opportunities to present to senior management. That attention-grabbing job belongs to people whose job is to talk. Chaos: you might be a senior manager or even director as a data scientist, but don't be surprised if a manager who do the talking to senior management and is trusted by a VP tells you what to do (most of which can be done by a high school student). I would've never accepted an offer from AIG had I known what it's like to work in the AIG Science team.

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5.0
Jun 21, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Everyone was very friendly and helpful if I ran into an issue.

Cons

Seasonality of work - slower after the summer rush until the end of the year.

3.0
Jun 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

AIG pays well. Pretty good benefits package & bonus structure.

Cons

The work is wild at AIG! Also, there are ALOT of people at AIG so, everybody has to weigh in on everything you do...keeping you bottlenecked in your work flow. AIG is not the place for a brand new, entry level adjuster breaking into the commercial space and they pretty much only hire experienced people HOWEVER, it does not matter-management will not trust your experience therefore, there is little to no autonomy! You will find yourself touching the same thing 3 or 4 times because your always waiting on permission or someone else's opinion on something, etc. You got to get permission to send for conflict check, got to get an opinion to answer a demand, a tender, an ROR ltr. .. they pounce on defense counsel's hourly rate to be cheap with them which makes them work w/less efficiency...dragging the claim out so they can get their billable hours. You will work your fingers to the bone for that good pay & you will be frustrated and exhausted, ALL THE TIME!...The environment is pretty stuffy w/a very high stress level, (especially with long time AIG employees who definitely drink the "kool-aid" and think they are hot stuff). They will keep you in dumb meetings on your claims all the time presenting your claims with everyone scared to make a decision plus, they never want to pay the claims, they are cheap as hell. They will make you have to scramble at a mediation to get more money even though you told them what you needed when they forced you to present the same claim to 3 different people before the mediation date. To me, management are glorified overseers who still handles the claim...they just tell you what to do or, they come behind you and second guess everything. And, they are trying to enforce 3 days in-office a week (which is hell for ATL traffic) plus, it's crowded on the elevator (which seems to get stuck more often than what I am comfortable with) and trying to find a desk when everyone decides to come in at the same time. It's a good temporary move....if you need the advanced commercial experience and/or want to reset your pay...stay for 1-2 yrs then, go somewhere else with work from home and a little more professional autonomy.

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