MetLife reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(6,432 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 6,432 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 Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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6K reviews
4.0
Dec 3, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The job provides complete automony as a financial advisor. If you hate hierarchy this is a good organizational structure. Additionally, the company finances your overhead expenses the first few years and provides a base salary for the first 19 weeks, although it isn't enough.

Cons

The compensation system is designed to make you fail if you hit a rough patch. There are "red" numbers and "black" numbers. The red numbers represent the amount of premium you have sold. This means nothing until the business is approved by the multiple layers of bureaucracy, otherwise known as compliance and underwriting. The black number represent the actual premium you place. But beware, MetLife pays you an upfront annualized commission. If the policy lapses later, they take the money back. Because business can be inconsistent at times, a take-back can substantially ruin your personal financial situation. Additionally, many of the Agency Sales Directors have very little experience, and are usually better producers than managers. Don't expect a lot of useful help and don't believe everything they tell you.

1.0
Jul 9, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working in security at MetLife was a highly rewarding experience. 95% of my colleagues were great, fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment. I successfully introduced five new technologies over four years. Streamlined numerous operations and engineering challenges within a complex regulatory environment.

Cons

I reported my direct manager twice to Employee Relations and had an escalation meeting scheduled with executive leadership. Consequently, I was let go under the guise of a reorganization while my current position was upgraded currently sitting vacant. I reported my manager for various issues including PTO denial after working long hours, promotion denial, poor program management, wasting thousands of hours of key vendors' time, gaslighting his own team and external partners, instructing me to stay in my lane and just keep the lights on, failing to address team concerns, blatant favoritism, and lack of respect for the time his team spends. Despite being a top performer at MetLife, previously receiving an "Exceeds Expectations" rating, it became clear after the reorganization that my new leader was only interested in maintaining the status quo and not making any waves until his turn for CISO, which was not a good fit for me. MetLife is supposed to have an anti-retaliation policy, and I fear for those I left behind, having personally recruited five people to the information security organization and managing a team of approximately 25 security engineers. My Employee Relations and ethics cases are still open, but the worst has already happened.

1.0
May 20, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company benefits and paid time off.

Cons

Overworked and underpaid. Each claim you enter must takes hours on hours to complete. Once you enter a claim there are several task . I have been working in claims for over 10 years and never had a claims have requires the level of responsibilities and claim work up. Not to mention… meetings… its almost impossible to get work done with the amount of meetings that we are required to attend. Please run and dont look back id you are planning on coming to LTD. There is no such thing as work life balance. The amount of case loads per case manager is unbearable. I find myself working 12 hours restless days 5 days out of the week and coming in on my off days to get things done just to meet deadlines. When team members are on PTO you are required to work their case loads once and done which is so unfair because it just puts you behind your own work. Management is not understanding and operate as if they are overseeing robots. With the amount of hours I work weekly I could have 2 job and not to mention that the position is salary ….so no overtime for all the blood sweat and tears that you put in on the clock. Please run from this department. The turnover rate is high for a reason. I have witnessed several new hires quit after completion of training, because it is just to much responsibility.

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