Bad work ethics - Anonymous employee Equitable Advisors Employee Review

2.0
May 9, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Not much in the way for Pros when the company played a lot of favorites with employees.

Cons

Agents would hire outside Admins to help them but company wouldn't acknowledge them nor keep them apprised of changes within company protocols. Agents would lay off Admin at any given time with no warning. Company would never back them up cause they are considered outside employees. I personally worked for a agent for about 10 years & one day on a Monday (3:45 pm) he tells me he can't afford to pay me any longer. No warning or anything. This was all premeditated because he had cancelled my health insurance already. Very unprofessional! Again, company did nothing for me because they considered me a outside employee.

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5.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Very fun work place and great work environment. Awesome incentive trips, great culture. Good management. Very motivational culture. Very lenient schedule depending on manager.

Cons

Bad pay within first couple of years. Back paying salary through "recovered commissions". Not much support in terms of finding clients.

1.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Complete freedom to build your book of business anmd schedule.

Cons

Horrendous place to start. Managers run their own practice and have little to no time to actually help you outside of your joint meetings so you're on your own. They only give you 2 options to get clients, cold calling or their retirement benefits group through schools. Basically the whole advising piece is to just to sell life insurance and annuities. The support staff is thin so you're kind of on your own with paperwork and compliance docs. They just genuinely offer you nothing. No help with covering costs (you pay for all your licensing and marketing materials), they even charge you for using the company laptop and fees for programs you will never use. They will mislead you about the commission payouts and you only really get something if you get them to buy an annuity or life insurance. If you also have a remaining balance of any fees when you leave, they will literally sending you threatening letters demanding the money and threaten you with claims court if you don't pay it back.

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