Swiss Re India Centric review.
Swiss Re policies are good in "general" but they have a visible double standard when you come to India. In the name of low cost center, Swiss Re exploits Indian employees and does not offer good benefits. Swiss Re gets lots of good work done in India but they hardly put in much for development of employees.
With similar kind of performance an employee in Zurich or US location tends to get much quickly promoted than an employee in India.
Baggage / legacy issue: Lots of Swiss Re mid-level management comes from Genpact. The problem is that most of these mid-level manager (the ones with Swiss Re) are "process" champions but they are not "intellect". They hire from top institutes and as a result they end up becoming inferior managers to superior employees which leads to a lot of conflicts.
During my stint at Swiss, I also had a feeling that the head office in Zurich does not want India employee to know the core things. As a result they would invest very little in training or acquainting Indian employees on core things.
