Prudential Reviews

Pros

Good hours and friendly people

Cons

Pay was not good at all. They expected you to know everything.

Advice to Senior Management

Nothing.

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

Great brand name that commands immediate respect in the market place. Benefits are top world class and are focused on a diverse work force

Cons

Seems there is continuous reorganization internally. Leading to a lot of gaps in continuity which has a very negative impact on clients and those employees who are client facing

Advice to Senior Management

Work to close gaps left from organizational changes, work on better communicating strategic vision and back verbalized commitment of growing talent from within with putting that into practice. Most hires from reorganization are external.

Pros

Great Work life balance, hours were fair and PTO given was decent.
Benefits package very thorough, including paid tuition with little to no commitment.
Easy job (if that's what you're into)

Cons

Most jobs arn't challenging, people stay there for years doing the same job.
People aren't motivated to work hard, coworkers are only worried about covering their own butts.
The monetary compensation is horribly low.
The whole management structure is screwed up, too many managers whose only job is micro managing associates. Most of the managers are there because of length of working time, not leadership ability.
The culture sucks! No one has any fun ever. It's go to work, process, go home. There is a tattle-tail culture, which is rewarded for some sick reason.
The technology you have to use every day sucks. They refuse to pay contractors to create good systems, instead relying on internal IT people.
Little/ no investment made in employees learning or development.

Advice to Senior Management

Get rid of these unqualified/uptight managers. Get some people in who know how to run a professional organization. Prudential's slogan is "Have a talent mindset." Well that's impossible when you aren't willing to pay.

Pros

Excellent team structure
Excellent compensation
Work life balance is incredible
Great communication between Senior level and entry level employees

Cons

As any IT job, chance to be outsourced
Opportunity for mid level technology jobs limited

Advice to Senior Management

Keep it up!

Pros

The work environment created truly inspires people to want to produce quality work. There is strong support for people to try things on their own, share ideas, give things a shot. You feel a part of the business not just a worker.

Cons

Too many cooks in the middle to lower level management. Too many in the chain of command can make things difficult time wise

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the strong focus on the great work environment, look at the excessive layers of management in areas, as well as groups being managed under areas that don't specialize in the type of work, therefore not understanding those employees or how their work is done.

Pros

Although there are scheduled meetings and training schedules made weekly, you are pretty much made to schedule your own work hours. You run errands around your work with no problem. They have an incredible wealth of knowledge through senior reps and e-learning modules that cover 99% of all potential financial difficulties one of your clients might encounter. Management is a wealth of knowledge. Everyone is looking for you to succeed.

Cons

A flexible schedule does not me this is a part time job. Not even a full time job. To be successful at this your looking at possibly 50+ hours. its 100% commission based. There are certain incentives if goals are met but they in no means offset the lack of salary. Also, within the spectrum of products at your disposal to market, the higher commission earning items are the most emphasized which do not carry any residual income which is what your looking for if you've decided to work in this career. You can decide on your own to focus on a residual market and in 4 to 5 years, with a lot of hard work, be making six figures but in the meantime, specially the first year you might only make $10,000.

Advice to Senior Management

Make an emphasis in helping people further their education with tuition reimbursement (current program is lacking). Also make management explain position much better during interview process, specially compensation.

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

Work life balance, no one works in office on Fridays-

Cons

Benefits extremely costly, manager was ineffective and destructive. People left dept due to this manager, left as in to another company, but no one addressed the issue-the manager. Created a deliberate chaotic environment, where this individual would say one thing to you one to one, another to the senior leader, and then not understand why you- me didn't get it. Forwarded VM's to the leader, and said leader would have no idea what this person was referring to? Just offensive

Advice to Senior Management

Wake up, . senior leaders in the group I worked with were too concerned of their reputation being marred to be effective

Pros

Great benefits package
Good Salary
Focus on Diversity through the company

Cons

Most managers can't lead
Too much focus on cost.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop the layoffs and outsourcing, listen to your people (they've been telling you this in the EOS for years) and enable your managers to lead. Get them out of meetings where nobody can truly make a decision and back into their departments where they can help improve things.

And never, ever, ever force another project down our throats like SA. EVER