Incompetent - Actuarial WTW Employee Review

1.0
4 Jul 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Not a single thing is good

Cons

As a junior actuary I want to learn. To grow. To become the best at what I do. All I have done for the past year was cleaning data. When confronting management about this, they confirm that this will continue for the next 4 to 5 years, and even worse even people with 12 years of experience are still doing this. The methods we use are out-dated to say the very least. In our whole office there are only 3 people who knows how to program in VBA. If I suggest a better approach it is shot down almost immediately. I compare myself to my other actuarial friends in other companies and they are doing far more advanced things after 3 or 4 months than what I am doing after 1 year. The junior actuaries hired (and a large number of senior actuaries as well), are completely useless as well with one girl who will become a qualified actuary in a few years asked me (to mention one of the few stupid questions) how to concatenate 2 cells in excel. Another asking me what SC is exactly after working at TW for 7 months... Good talent is leaving TW.

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WTW Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We're disappointed to hear your negative comments. We have a graduate recruitment process with a vigorous assessment criteria, which we hope ensures that associates have the key skills for their role.

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