AXA reviews

1. It is a French company - with full of French people but in Asia. They get paid almost three times more than local people but have no idea how Asia markets work. Still they will get promoted sooner than you just because they are French. There's nothing you can do with this matter, just suck up or leave. 2. Poor management & leadership - You have NO idea what the Asia CEO has done for past couple years, nor other senior executives. They spend money on hiring useless people, bringing failures from the Group, clueless projects, and helpless vendors yet keep insisting cost efficiency. The reason why management proposed working from home is because there's not enough seats for everyone, what a shame for such a big company. The whole regional IT team will be moving to Manila soon for cost efficiency. Well.. good luck. 3. Crazy politics - to deliever a single simple project will take forever or never due to politics. Sometimes it's funny to watch though French people hating each other. 4. No empowerment - Asia Regional office is losing its empowerment over entities. Entities start doing their own things and do real execution while people in the regional office are busy with fighting each other. Even people in the regional level are not sure what their objectives are with entities.

Everything else. They will not pay you a dime until you are fully licensed. When they finally do pay you, the base is $2,000 a MONTH gross (before taxes). That's a $700 paycheck every two weeks. When making this offer, they will present you 2-3 different pay structures. One of them is full 1099 (contractor), you will not make a dime, but will keep a high commission percentage. "Building your book of business" is a lot of reaching out to grandma and grandpa to see if they'd be interested in signing on for life insurance and framing it as, "financial advising." Embarrassing. Other companies offer vastly greater support and better benefits, you can and should do better. Given that the company is located in LA, where the median rent for a 1-bedroom is $2,661, it is completely absurd and exploitative to offer employees a base pay of $2,000 a month before taxes and zero financial support during the 2-3 months they are studying for their exams. Your hiring manager will pump you up, and they will make promises, as every company does, but don't be fooled. If you can find another opportunity: PLEASE do yourself a favor and find it. I accepted this job offer when I was 21, fresh out of college and was naive. You are at your most vulnerable then. As a 25 year old, I wouldn't recommend this career path, and this heinous pay to anyone. Do yourself a favor and negotiate your base, or better yet: find a company that will pay you a livable wage and won't push you to go full 1099.