Pros
AIG has at least 60 countries reporting in different currencies, so you need a way to facilitate how you will get all of the 'data' into the system which is intended to compute reserves. It is possible to do it, and in the end of the quarter, have it all come out of the system into dollars. So I thought that was excellent because you don't want to have Euros mixed up with Yen and not have a way to separate them. In fact, there were about 16 modifications to enter the system, including how you get into it.
Also, some of the poeple at the company are very nice and stop by when ever you are there, whereas others don't bother to do that.
I have calculated statutory, tax and GAAP reserves for at least 15 years or more. I really like it. I've calculated them for every product in the U.S. and a lot of countries, both at AIG and at PolySystems.
Cons
I was a consultant which I thought meant after six or 7 months I would be hired full time. However, at that time, I think some of the upper level of people in the company had heard that trouble was coming and they just told me I was to leave in two weeks.
I also felt like several of the people I knew from nine years before I went there didn't talk too me too much because I wasn't permanent.
