Allianz reviews

It's very difficult to tell why people are promoted here. It's often not the best people. It's sort of a crony culture where management gives itself as many perks/increased bonuses as possible, and employees try to "buy in" to the culture to get some of those perks. The company supposedly has had banner years the last two years, but many bonuses have gone down despite high individual employee rankings. There are many non-working "managers" who spend most of their day micromanaging their reports. They are often pretty weak, so employees call it "playing house" with their manager. Weak senior management. If you've done well at other companies because you do quality work and work hard, you may not want to go here, because that's not what is rewarded. Get anything they promise you in an interview in writing if you can.

CS employees routinely thrown under the bus by management when a caller doesn't get their way even though as a CS you've been explicitly told x is not allowed. However, if the customer complains loudly enough their bad behavior is rewarded and the employee becomes the fall guy. In addition, the technology they employ is decades behind the rest of the world and frequently fails or provides incorrect information with cumbersome work-arounds. There is little to no vacation time offered other than a small handful of days for an entire department for an entire year. But aside from all that, probably the worst aspect is the unrealistic call handle times imposed - as a CS employee you're assisting customers with complicated financial packages, often times the customer's life savings and/or retirement funds, but you're limited to only 5.25 minutes per call. If you do not meet this limit you're either placed on a firing warning for exceeding the limit and eventually fired for it or you choose deliver poor customer service to keep your calls as short as possible. If you see a problem with the customer's account and they don't bring it up, you sure aren't going to because that would make the call longer so you leave it be and the customer gets screwed. It would seem the mentality is that Allianz already has the customer's money so why do they care that their CS employees are giving poor CS? It seems that they're only concerned with processing as many calls as possible, it's quantity over quality. Even good employees that have been with the company for years must fear for their jobs every day and even though the company states they promote hiring from within, in the call center it's all smoke and mirrors. It's been years since an employee escaped the call center by getting another job within the company. For most the only exit is with their personal belongings in hand, escorted out the door by security. But there are always more warm bodies desperate for a job, isn't that right?