MassMutual St. Louis management/training was a severe disappointment - Financial Services Professional MassMutual Employee Review

1.0
Nov 13, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

They have a great whole life insurance product for you to sell. It truly is the best on the market if you do your research.

Cons

They hire anyone who breaths. If you can breath they can hire you, you can bring a friend/family member on as a client, and then when you quit they don't have to pay you residual so they make more money. They train on old school insurance sales, not the financial products or how to run a business. They charge you for everything most people take for granted at businesses. They charge for your E&O insurance, CRM's, printing, licensing, and a bunch of other stuff most companies would take care of for you. There are good advisors here who focus on comprehensive planning, but management pushes insurance because that is what they get paid for.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

• Decent benefits • Some good individual contributors and colleagues.

Cons

• Extremely high workload — regularly expected to work 60-80+ hours per week • Constant scope changes with unrealistic expectations and impossible deadlines • Upper management was disconnected and showed little concern for employee well-being • Highly political environment where internal politics often outweighed actual performance • Mass layoffs that eliminated roughly half the engineering team, followed by offshoring many roles to India — even after many of us had dedicated 4+ years to the company • Extremely stressful and unsustainable culture leading to widespread burnout

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