MetLife Reviews

Pros

good medical and retirement benefits, ability to make your own schedule

Cons

management displays publicly they want staff retention, but behind the scenes a revolving door is how they manke their money

Advice to Senior Management

be honest and up front with candidates about the high likelihood of seeking alternative employment within the first year or two

Pros

MetLife is trusted company with good reputation.

Cons

MetLife does not care about those employees who do not meet the requirement.

Advice to Senior Management

There are too many same training over and over.

Pros

A good place to work, nice colleagues but competencies can be improved. Promotions are hard to come by, very slow moving. Hope that new CEO will change everything

Cons

Slow moving. Silos. Decision making is fractured. Death by powerpoint. Waste a lot of time in cutting through red tape than actually doing real work

Advice to Senior Management

Understand who your top employees are and give them bigger assignments. Rotate talent across various departments to give people a broad perspective of the business

Pros

Benefits and stable company - solid financials

Cons

growth opportunities limited for internal movement to other competencies, slow to change

Pros

Friendly Staff
Good Stepping Stone for Financail Career
They Sponsor Securities License

Cons

Upper Management does not help new hires.

Pros

Lots of business to do

Cons

Communication lacking from the mgt

Advice to Senior Management

Care more about the employees on every level of the organization....not just mid to upper mgt

Pros

Snoopy; i.e. brand recognition.
Have a lot of institutional clients that can produce some leads for you - if you qualify for it.
Metlife reimburses you industry designations you achieve.

Cons

Contrary to what they say you are a captive agent: You want medical insurance, you must sell almost exclusively Metlife products. You want to qualify for sales conferences you must sell almost exclusively Metlife products. You want to be part of their better lead-generation programs you must sell almost exclusively Metlife products.
Also, Metlife have people specifically hired to read all Financial Service Reps e-mails.

Advice to Senior Management

Way too much bureaucracy and mistrust of their employees.
Move away from the captive agent model.
Get more competitive products.

Pros

Solid company
Benefits are okay
Culture is great

Cons

no growth
TOO MUCH POLITICS!
Not much mentoring

Advice to Senior Management

Praise the ones who work hard, not just the ones who clock in exactly at 8 and exactly at 5

Pros

Solid in its industry, job security

Cons

Political, supported to learn other lines of business but no support to implement what you learn and not allowed time to obtain experience.

Advice to Senior Management

More accountability from Senior Management to Middle Management. Policy that minimizes favoritism should be implemented and updated as needed.

Pros

Flexible schedule.
Unlimited pay opportunity.

Cons

Leads given to agent are of very poor quality.
Agents is in many cases required to preform service work on clients that are not in his book of business.

Advice to Senior Management

More support to new agents and much less favoritism given to the senior agents with company supplied leads.