Prudential Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Prudential

Pros – Prudential and its managers give you many different resources to succeed. If you are willing to follow there advice and put in the hours you will enjoy working here. The work environment is very professional. Prudential offers some of the best products in the market so you are selling products you believe in.

Cons – You have to be willing to chase people around. The first couple of years are very hard and you are going to feel under payed. You have to be able to deal with rejection on a daily bases. To find sales you have to be willing to drive all over NC and SC.

Advice to Senior Management – Working environment in Charlotte NC is one of the best in the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Prudential

Pros – You learn a tremendous amount in a fairly short time. They are dedicated to training their employees and helping you achieve future goals.

Cons – Working for a large public corporation makes it difficult to work "outside the box". You will be constantly held in check by your superiors.

Advice to Senior Management – I wish they would allow for more personal input from their employees and would create a more open line of communication.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Prudential

Pros – Fair pay, flexible work schedules in most departments and pretty good benefits. There is a big emphasis on diversity and work, life balance.

Cons – Senior Management, and much of Middle Management are very fearful, distrustful and ignorant of technology. For years it has been seen as a necessary evil, and only embraced when it could offer more metrics. Technology to make the work more efficient, easier or faster takes a back seat to 'what reports can I get out of it?" The technology departments are also being gutted. Layoffs have stripped IT departments of most of their experience.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend more time opening lines of communication across and within offices. Listen to your people, not your Veepees and Directors. The EOS is only reflecting what those who still care have to say. All those middle of the road answers reflect people who don't think you care.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Prudential

Pros – benefits, tuition reimbursement, flexibility, rotational program

Cons – manager feedback at the last minute, slow growth potential

Advice to Senior Management – be fair to rotational associates

Current Employee – been working at Prudential

Pros – A pro to working at prudential would be that they take their training program seriously, they help you out alot

Cons – Hard to respect some of the managers since most of the financial services associates have more licenses than the manageres

Advice to Senior Management – If you dont have many options its definitely a great place to work. However I would recommend something else. Women do real well there

Current Employee – been working at Prudential

Pros – -great work/life balance
-most of the senior team in my department have been with the company 10, 15, 20+ years, in many different areas of the business; that shows me unlimited potential for growth within this company

Cons – -they don't make it a secret that the pay is mid-range; I earn much less than my peers at other companies

Advice to Senior Management – -this company isn't doing nearly as bad as many of the other finance/insurance companies on the market, they should pay their employees better

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Prudential

Pros – Staff very friendly, pay for licensing, nice office. Good job training, good preparation for financial testing. All tools provided to you.

Cons – Pay is very minimal initially. Very hard to live on this income. Also, very hard to survive during ramp-up period unless you have a huge list of probably clients already prepared and prepped.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more initially, during ramp up period. The pay is so minimal that its very difficult to even get by, pay bills, rent, etc.

Current Employee – been working at Prudential

Pros – Great training program for their financial services rep.'s
1st yr. salary while in training is good compared to other companies

Cons – sales meetings every morning can be non productive
long hours wo make quota's
if you miss your monthly quota two times in a roll you are fired

Advice to Senior Management – You would do better in retaining your talent if you give them some flexibility in quota's at least within the training periods. Also, the company have such a large client base you should give a little more lead support to new rep's coming in. The phonebook cold calling really is'nt effective and it alienated new rep's trying to learn the business and present themselves as professionals.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Prudential

Pros – Self-employed with time off. You can start work anytime you want to and have plenty of time for your family.

Cons – Houses do not sell and you put a lot of work into the job. Then you make nothing.

Advice to Senior Management – Great leadership

Current Employee – been working at Prudential

Pros – Flexible schedule, uncapped earning potential, great products.. and a lot of intercompay support. (i.e., experts in annuities, life insurance, or benefits packages that can analyze cases and help you make recommendations).

Cons – When they recruited me they showed me a brochure that said my "potential first year compensation" was $69,000. Ha! Let me tell you.. no matter how good you are, NO ONE makes that much in their first year. Most of the agents I've talked to made between 30 and 40 their first year. Plenty of the older agents make bank, but you have to be prepared to struggle for a while. Make sure that you have enough saved up (or a spouse) to help you keep afloat when you begin. Also, you have to have a natural market. You'll be asked to come up with a list of 200 people you know who you could potentially sell to, and believe me, they will make you call EVERY SINGLE ONE of those people. It was embarrassing for me. The good news is that as you gain experience, you start to realize that you really can help these people-- Prudential's products are first class-- and you stop feeling like a pushy, aggressive, salesperson.

Advice to Senior Management – Give the beginners a better lead program. Not everyone has relatives/neighbors/huge networks to sell to.