"Mad Men Era" - Anonymous employee MassMutual Employee Review

1.0
Sep 28, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Solid track record, been around for 150 years with great comdex scores.

Cons

The local office is so antiquated, there are literally no female agents, only 3 people that weren't white, and they refer to all "Non-Registered" staff as "NRFS" (nerfs)....this is a reference used for all female employees - who are the people doing a significant amount of the work and the only thing keeping the office together. My last compliance training experience was so dreadful, the video put together from the home office was a total joke, for a company of this size, it was like they hired a 7th grader to make it on their phone. I have been thoroughly unimpressed - they are a dinosaur, so far behind the market trends they aren't even playing the same game.

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