Pros
Depending on which business line/department you're in, overall, great people to work with. Flexible work schedules and strong commitment to work/life balance EXCEPT if you're in enterprise resiliency or EPW operations led by staff in Colorado because they make you change your work hours to theirs. Decent pay. Lots of promotions compared to Prudential.
Cons
Too many acquisitions in a short time makes things hard to figure our because everything is always changing and there's a lot of instability. There are too many people in compliance/law that don't help me/us when we have questions. All these compliance/law people and it seems like no one is working or wants to work/help me/us. I think maybe it's because they don't understand our business or products they bought. I am from Prudential. Good news is that they kept two of the regulatory governance compliance group/lawyer we trusted and were helpful. Empower wants to stay "flat organization" but that is not realistic because it's too big now. It takes a long time to reach decisions and then move on them because our bosses/managers are individual contributors, who travel all the time and are never available to meet. They also don't know how to let work go and let us do it. It's like they're on power trips or something. The operations and call center managers in Colorado made us change our work times to theirs. I'm in Massachusetts, and I think they should change to our time because we are the same as the stock market. We have T+1 now, they're behind not us.