MetLife Reviews

Pros

Right now, none. It was a goiod place to work, until it was bought.

Cons

New management has no idea what it is doing.

Pros

Good pay & benefits, especially for recent college graduates
Good work/life balance
Many different facets of the company to be involved with

Cons

Performance feedback/recognition could be improved
There are not many opportunities for career growth unless you move from team to team

Pros

MetLife overall has a great benefits package. The office is close to home. The people I work with are hard working people.

Cons

Be careful about the department you work in. Your happiness greatly depends on the leader of the individual orgnaization, and it greatly differs from one to the other. In the Sales, Group Benefit Sales orgnaization, it's a depressing place. Where under previous leadership we were appreciated, and happy, we are now unappreciated, and very unhappy. The leader told us, if we don't like it, then feel free to leave. Employees are viewed as disposable, even with 10+ years of service, and even though our job is a 2-3 year learning curve.

Advice to Senior Management

Understand that when employees don't feel appreciated or happy, service to customers will be affected, no matter the "metrics" say. With the high rates that MetLIfe has, the only selling feature is the service they will receive. If you don't have happy employees, you will not have happy customers.

Pros

good people, flexible hours, good benefits

Cons

undervalued by management, bad workload balance, performance based on sales surveys and not quality of work. more quanity over quality.

Pros

Good benefits, good experience, big company

Cons

No work life balance, even though it is something they promote, its never followed through with

Pros

Good Product training. Well capitalized firm, should be around in the next millenium. Decent benefits.

Cons

Expect to put in 60-80 hours a week easily. PHONES - PHONES - PHONES. Marketing is virtually non existent for the individual producer. Definitely some favoritsm goes on for a small group of producers. Compliance is all geared towards protecting the "MetLife butt'.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop nickel and diming your employee's to pay for EVERYTHING !!

Pros

Good PTO, and work is easy

Cons

Work is too Easy, not quite challenging enought

Advice to Senior Management

Take advantage of young tallent.

Pros

Work Life balance, relaxed atmosphere

Cons

little room for improvement, little communication between senior management and employees

Advice to Senior Management

more communication

Pros

Great benefits if you can make it past 5 years. Great opportunities to explore continuing education for your particular career path.

Cons

Management support is okay, depends if you are making them money or not. Financial Service positions are full commission and high stress.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees. Provide additional training and support outside the class room atmosphere. Higher quality employees not just people to fill quotas.

Pros

Excellent work life balance, ability to telecommute when necessary. Flexible hours. Never ab issue to take off as needed for different personal items.

Cons

Difficult for internal promotions. Certain level of who you know, not what you know.
Can be limited in external learning opportunities, they talk a good game but hold back on the exceution. Upper management seems to be more focused on the bottom line.

Advice to Senior Management

Be more oprn to providing more learning opportunities to your managers and employees. Instead of hiring from the outside promote more from within by training and developing your employees.