Prudential Reviews in New York City, NY Area

Pros

Work and Family life balance, competetive salary, good benefits

Cons

Due to recent economic conditions, not much room for promotions or transfers within the company.

Pros

Prudential offers great work life balance benifits. They're generally supportive of employees who want to persue training and continuing education.

Cons

Due to the fallout from the financial crisis, there is a general lack of career professional growth opportunities. Also, knowledge and information is often "siloed" between groups, even within the same department.

Pros

Opportunity and encouragement from senior management to move about company to gain experience. Focus on talent management by senior management.

Cons

Compensation less competitive than NYC companies, although it is somewhat mitigated by a better work/life balance (based on conversations w/friends in similar filed in NYC).

Pros

Flexible hours included regular working from home days. People with proven results where given responsibilities. In comparison, benefits package is better than in some bigger financial companies.

Cons

Project required large amount of overtime hours. This was largely not acknowledged by management. Advancement options and requirements where not clearly defined.

Advice to Senior Management

People willing to take on more responsibility should be able to clearly see what are the next steps in advancing their careers.

Pros

A supportive culture.
Competitive pay
Good name to have on resume

Cons

I worked for a person who was a tyrant --great at controlling the group but not open to novelty.
People not very out going--most were content on just having a job and doing the 9-5pm. Rarely found passion among the employees.
Intellectually not a stimulating environment

Advice to Senior Management

Insure that an environment that fosters as well as rewards creativity is implement even down to the group level.

Pros

The position allows for work life balance and a lot of flexibility. A lot of continuous training and perks for those us once we qualify.

Cons

weak comp plan for new people, a lot of money needed up front to invest if you want to really be successful.

Pros

Good professional working environment at this company.

Cons

Sometimes not informed of major company changes

Advice to Senior Management

Be informative to all employees.

Pros

Friendly co-workers, Effective management, Convenient free parking available with company lot in the city.

Cons

Hard to see the big picture at times.

Pros

Work life balance is big. They are very flexible with the workforce alternatives in terms of telecomuting etc.

Cons

It is an insurance company and still can move slow and be political.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay more attention to talent pipelining. I've seen trends where many talented people leave becuase there were not ample opportunities for growth and advancement.

Pros

Flexibilty
Location of Office
Tuition Reimbursement

Cons

Lack of Growth
Compensation
Lack of innovation

Advice to Senior Management

Learn to recognize talent and stop promoting people based on brown nosing.