MetLife reviews

- if you want to advance you have to give your body and soul to the Metway rules - 0 work life balance if looking for advancement. Calls in the morning with EMEA, work all day and then calls at night with Asia - bonus ratings are a black box. Never consistent and always leave you wondering what is going on behind closed doors. - unprofessional layoff process. Always look at high salary people with years of experience not thinking of the impact when these resources are lost.

- Executive management has lost touch of what MetLife has stood for, divested core businesses in the U.S. (Brighthouse Financial and MassMutual) - Work environment was too political, games being played by management and across geography. - In general, management is resistant to change, hesitant to adapt new technologies into improving existing processes. - Many teams are siloed. - Knowledge gap across hierarchy. (Senior management doesn't know what middle management is doing and middle management doesn't know what non-management employees do.) - Company-wide layoffs disguised as "Transformation" and "LEAN." - Almost no opportunity for career advancement, would rather hire externally than promote from within. - Promotions based on who you know rather than the work you do. - Internal systems occasionally down "for maintenance or updates" during peak business days. - Lots of smoke and mirrors.