MetLife reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(6,429 total reviews)
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Michel Khalaf

82% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

MetLife has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,429 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MetLife employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Mar 25, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Lovey building, great coworkers, good pay

Cons

Don't know where to start, I think the number of employees leaving or looking says a lot. Projects are a death march employees and contractors in our department work nights weekends and holidays. Upper Mangment serves as task mangers rather than managing. True effort to complete projects is not captured so estimated time is never enough. Vendodor teams are switched mid project making subject matter experts non existent. Full time employees were laid of and forced to reapply a small number of positions and the rest of positions were filled by contractors. Ratings are given on a curve hard work and excessive hours are not compensated and first line mangers have no time to help with caree path. Culture is toxic and employees and vendors are unhappy and overworked.

1.0
Oct 28, 2014

Company products are good, working there is not

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

benefit package was amazing, peers were great to work with, great location in NC, lots of opportunities for lateral moves, but not for upward mobility.

Cons

the relocation of IT to NC seems to give MetLife the idea that NC region people don't deserve to be paid well. Was hired to do one job and then realized was being tasked to do three jobs at a salary that wasn't the median for any of the three! .

2.0
Jul 21, 2014

All about the optics.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay and benefits were within normal industry standards.

Cons

-Lack of focused and measured training for new hires. No actual benchmarks or goals. -Fragmented focus on projects and training. -Well established group with sub-cliques…manager did not run the department. -Sold as a “start-up” within recruiting and onboarding stating MetLife desires your input and suggestions, the reality is they don’t want your feedback or suggestions. Just do the job yesterday and don’t question anything. -Siloes and no interdepartmental cooperation exists. Unprofessional language and behavior abounds between departments and personnel. -Obsolete and antiquated technologies…regressive and not a career builder for anyone. -Managers are process managers, not people managers. -If your group dislikes you for any reason, you will be pushed out. This is the same group that you don’t meet when interviewing for the job. Huge disadvantage for incoming hires. -Communication between managers and subordinates is opaque at best. You never receive any feedback on your proposals or training progress. -Company is only concerned with how it looks to its shareholders. This is at ALL costs! -Morale is a joke. Disregard what you’re told upon interviewing. -Massive loss of knowledge with their elimination of the previously existing workforce for the move to NC. No knowledge transfer.

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