Company: EY
Date: 2020-12-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Actuarial BPO
P&C
Pros: - work from home options
nothing else
Cons: - this is an actuarial BPO - almost running at the mercy of US team 
- Cant challenge actuarial assumptions, get into discussions etc, what we are asked to do is mostly copy-paste work from prior analysis and then all the decisions will betaken by the US actuarial person
- Learning curve will go downwards not even stagnate- eg- since the work of the offshore unit is just to do copy-paste job and make hours and not do quality job, you will be swamped by massive workload, hence no time to spend on analysis or making sense of results. 
- extremely defensive management. Even if you bring these points to management, you will be made a joke in the conversation
- management is just toooo scared of onshore guys- cant take a stand for their Indian colleagues, doesnt allow offshore guys to openly ask doubts to onshore to protect image
- No holiday- none trust me- between OCTOBER to March
except in Christmas when onshore guys take leave
but that can also get cancelled if your onshore manager dumps work for u while she/he is away
in short- no cultural diversity- no leave on diwali, holi , weddings - not even 2 days. Plus no study leave during this time. That means your April exam is nothing but a wasted effort 
while US ppl can take leaves for 1-2 weeks for christmas, thanksgiving and CASACT exams even during busy season
- no control over your career- so lets say you have expertise in AXIS they might put you for prophet bcz they just want someone to produce hours and not value someones skills or expertise