Prudential reviews

Management staff is condescending and incompetent. Compliance staff would like to sabotage any business that sales staff brings in. It is VERY difficult to make it in this position. Plan to have no family life outside of Prudential for the first 4 years because the only way to make it is to work 70 hours per week and spend a lot of time doing free, unpaid service work for existing Pru clients hoping to get a sale from it. No warm leads are ever provided so, it is sink or swim. You have to call everyone you know to start your practice. Even though you a making a pittance of a wage via commissions, you have to pay for office rental, technology costs, etc. as if you were in business for yourself. Realize that after a few month, you will go many weeks at a time with absolutely no paycheck after putting in 70 hours per week. It is tough.

Senior Management, and much of Middle Management are very fearful, distrustful and ignorant of technology. For years it has been seen as a necessary evil, and only embraced when it could offer more metrics. Technology to make the work more efficient, easier or faster takes a back seat to 'what reports can I get out of it?" The technology departments are also being gutted. Layoffs have stripped IT departments of most of their experience.