The Land of Oz - Anonymous employee MassMutual Employee Review

3.0
Feb 1, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Opportunities for hard workers, trying to innovate and transform. Good cafe, benefits and bonus potential

Cons

Instead of promoting and rewarding from within, many times they hire externally and pay that person 30% more than the top performer of that unit. Then you find out the external hire can't execute and that top performer needs to mentor the external hire. This happens quite frequently. I understand that you need to attract talent from outside to get fresh ideas, but for the gap in salary for these people to be so large against their peers is disheartening But I know their strategy is that they know people wont leave and they deal with it

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