MetLife reviews

Constant restructuring. Rush to offshore work, then decide to start reeling some of the work back. Coinciding with pulling the jobs back, decision to consolidate/move jobs to another state, yielding even more loss of knowledge. Skill sets get stale.

Like many public companies, the emphasis is clearly on their financial performance above everything else. Recent history is a good example. MetLife is laying off more than 2,000 of it's most experienced employees in the northeast to move the majority of its domestic staff to North Carolina in exchange for tax considerations. Management has done this without sufficiently understanding what impact this will have on their ability to maintain an effective IT infrastructure, but instead are moving quickly to realize a high short term gain in salary and real estate costs. The institutional knowledge of how to get things done has been strongly impacted by forced turnover and there is a significant amount of disorder and inefficiency in their IT processes. Translation: expect long hours.