MetLife Reviews

Pros

Good compensation and opportunity to learn in other areas

Cons

Slow opportunity for advancement to higher positions

Pros

Great people, fair salary, easy work

Cons

Politics, conservative, objectives are unclear

Advice to Senior Management

I feel that the management could use the budding technology fields to improve their new business sales and overall customer appeal.

Pros

-Good Training
-Good Manager (the one i was with)
-Good Comp (higher than standard)
-Good Health Benefits

Cons

-Like any sales job - hard work

Advice to Senior Management

Keep at it.

Pros

Advisors genuinely like to help each other thru partnering, info sharing, expertise, etc.

Cons

"Snoopy" culture sometimes gets in the way..red tape and politics slow down the process

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more time helping advisors develop their practices

Pros

This used to be a great company to work for, but it's not any longer. It used to have a real family feel to it and great benefits, including a 401k, pension, and inexpensive health insurance.

Cons

MetLife has been steadily laying off employees in the U.S. They have been bleeding them off over the last 4 years so it won't hit the news. There is no reason to do so. They are making healthy profits. They have built a hugely successful company during the last 140 years by using American labor to produce products for sale to Americans. Now they are sending jobs overseas.

Advice to Senior Management

Check your greed.

Pros

On site gym, pretty good benefits (life insurance, health etc).

Cons

Spotty and different treatment across departments. Political and ingrained, old ways of doing business prevail.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership and management training is needed for those in positions of authority.

Pros

Metlife provides leads to work and programs to get you infront op prospects.

Cons

It can cost up to 1,200 per month in overhead just to have a cube.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of the overhead and more people will stay.

Pros

In the beginning, the pay was excellent. We weren't micromanaged and felt important.

Cons

The incentive program changed every year, for the worse. It was impossible to get days off/vacation requests, as we had to schedule them in December for the following year.

Advice to Senior Management

Hire management based on their management skills, and not their popularity.

Pros

I worked in one of the local sales offices, and everyone was friendly making it a very pleasant place to be every day.

Cons

The managing director of each sales office pays for everything himself to run that office. Therefore, every expenditure is evaluated to excess. Often decisions are made based upon the desire to not spend money rather than the best business decision to spend money on advertising or holding an event. Even though MetLife is a huge corporation, when you work in a sales office, all decisions are local.

Advice to Senior Management

On the local level, listen to the managers you have hired, they have expertise in their specialized areas. Think about the whole picture to grow your business and not just how much money you may have to spend to do that.

Pros

Familial relationships
Esprit de Corp of Workign together
Talented and experienced workflorce

Cons

At times communication is amiss

Advice to Senior Management

Need to value your employees when they are on site as opposed to when they are about to leave