MetLife reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,429 total reviews)
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Michel Khalaf

82% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

MetLife has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,429 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MetLife employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Seguros industry (3.6 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Jun 29, 2009

Great until the expenses start to kick in!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great brand for honesty and integrity. Snoopy. Good visability with the blimp. Good risk management. Great educational capabilities and product education. Reinforces good ethics and compliance.

Cons

High expenses. Payouts lowering. Pay to 'play' for everything. Compliance is extremely important in this litigious society; that said, should not be 'sales prevention unit'. Just coming into the next century re: securities and full service financial management. Has it's own parameters for these achievements which reinforce 'favorites' and stifle participation and advancement within. Encouragement of using 'natural market' to start career and then drop you for other 'newbies'.

2.0
Jun 27, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Training is very good. The company pays for your life, health and NASD licensing.

Cons

Low Hanging Fruit... Solicit Insurance products to Friends and Family, and then your on your own after that to sell insurance product to everyone else. When you don't make your sales numbers, you get warning letters on top of warning letters. Then you eventually quit because your not making any money. You spend lots of time and your own money marketing and pushing insurance products to just about any one alone. Not a team environment! The office even wants you to pay for photo copies and faxes. Then after a certain amount of time, you have to pay for your office space. Work Life balance is very bad. You spend all of your time going from house to house chasing potential clients. More than half does not show up for appointments. Insurance products are more expensive compared to other companies. Most of the time, the client finds less expensive coverage else where. Compliance office is very very strict. When you no longer work for this company, they now have your friends and family accounts and they re hire someone in your place to get their friends and family accounts. High turn over... Revolving Door. They make more money from you, then you from them.

3.0
Jun 24, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

For the most part there are great people at MetLife; plenty of resources for development, through huge on line library of books and courses.

Cons

Overly seasoned employees who are resistant to change, meetings lack direction, too many chef's allowed to season the soup or over analyzing every little detail with out understanding the big picture; communication channels are manic with an over communication of social and non work activities, and a total lack of policy and procedure changes.

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