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      Northwestern Mutual

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      Northwestern Mutual reviews

      4.0

      70% would recommend to a friend

      (8,236 total reviews)

      Timothy J. Gerend

      94% approve of CEO

      73% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Senior management

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      Northwestern Mutual has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,236 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Northwestern Mutual employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.8 stars).

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Reviews by job title

      8K reviews
      2.0
      Feb 24, 2018

      Not what it used to be

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Free lunches, great workout facility, nice view of the lake

      Cons

      All the layoffs and the insecurity related to it have caused the work environment to become toxic. As a long-term employee I now feel very insecure because the focus is exclusively on millennials--there is no regard for experience and knowledge. Benefits have been cut dramatically and continue to be cut. High level management receive excessive rewards despite negative outcomes. Company is going in the wrong direction and is being mismanaged. Both sexism and ageism are rampant and HR turns a blind eye. Losing valuable resources and experience as a result.

      1.0
      Aug 10, 2022

      This company is a scam for any undergraduates

      Internship
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Not a whole lot of pros

      Cons

      Absolutely immoral business model. As an intern they make you write down 200 people who you can warm-call. If you end up not continuing with the internship as more than HALF of people do, they simply take your list and use it themselves to cold call. The job is just calling your friends and family and asking them to buy overpriced life insurance from you. The companies entire design is to bring in as many college interns as possible and then have them actively try to take money from people close to them, so the people higher up make money. DO NOT EVEN TALK TO THESE PEOPLE AT CAREER FAIRS. They rope interns in by saying you can be financially independent and make tons of money, without ever telling you what you’ll be doing. Because if they did tell you what you would be doing, they wouldn’t be able to steal from interns anymore and their entire business practice would collapse. This entire business reeks of immorality.

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