Pros
High profile projects; exposure to senior management; growth opportunitites; experience writing policies, partnering with interna/external partners; mentorship opportunities with senior executives available for proactive employees.
Cons
Home office employees on the broker-dealer side of MetLife are underpaid. As a former internal wholesaler for the MetLife Broker-Dealer Group I earned $75-85k per year. A friend of mine in the same position left Met and went to work as an internal wholesaler for a fund family and immediately started earning $100k+ in a low-profile territory. Other con is that senior management places more emphasis and care on field reps than on home-office employees. There have been countless times where field reps were wrong to the point of even breaking compliance, yet senior management catered to them instead of supporting the home-office employee.
