MetLife reviews

Over the last 15 years, it’s been a living hell. You are constantly looking over your back hoping you’re not next. Unless you want to work in Cary, your days are probably numbered. The hiring continues to fill the buildings there. They seem to leave as fast as they come however. Unfortunately this company has turned into being all about the mighty dollar. They forgot how to treat employees and customers with dignity and respect. They also continue to be top heavy, especially at the AVP and VP level. There are VPs with no direct reports.

MetLife loves to claim that they are a “tech company” to attract software engineers, but in reality they are not. Their decisions are always based on the bottom line and never on the well-being of employees. In my opinion, tech companies invest in their engineers by creating budgets for learning and development. I don’t think MetLife offers any of this, but if they do, they surely do not promote it. Tech companies also allow engineers to drive the technical direction of teams. Managers are generally non-technical with backgrounds in project management or business. Tech decisions are driven by the bottom line. Horrible Oracle and Microsoft tools are used because of long-standing relationships between them and MetLife. Finally, it is super boring to be an engineer here. Nothing you build will have much of an impact and techs that are truly challenging to build are mostly outsourced. Keep in mind that I worked in an app development team. This may not be the case for every engineer.