MetLife Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"The worst company ever."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Run away as fast as you can. Work at McDonald's if you have to."

What don't you like about working at MetLife?

"First Horizon was a total disaster in Southern California. How many offices did they close? How many lives did they ruin? Totally incompetent senior management. Managers were fired."

"Good place to work and has career advancement opportunities."

"My experience where was spotty."

"Decent place to start out.... consulting."

"Good benefit package offered for employees."

What do you like about working at MetLife?

"Providing good benefits."

"Metlife is good company to work for."

What do you like about working at MetLife?

"It's a good company to work with a lot talented people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It's a good company to work for and a lot of growth in it."

What don't you like about working at MetLife?

"New England Financial was purchased by METLIFE. The Boston Site eventually became regional office with no major executives working there."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management was very focus on accomplishments. The management styles were good to achieve the great results."

"An excellent company with a highly skilled legal department that became overly cost-conscious once it became public."

"Great company if you have a decent manager in a good department that is fair and balanced."

What do you like about working at MetLife?

"MetLife is a good company depending on the department. I liked my position I held with MetLife. If you end up in a department with someone who is a bad manager, your experience will be awful. Good manager, good department and you will enjoy working at Metlife."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Come to work early, stay late. The manager that you report to may change every quarter. Learn your job and have conversations when you can arrange it with the head of your department."

What don't you like about working at MetLife?

"Middle managers are not good role models, very little support for advancement for people of color. The atmosphere is much better in the sales offices but the home offices have much to be desired."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Hire people that have vision and stop hiring people they know MetLife is notorious for hiring school chums and friends. Management at MetLife is only concerned about the issues at their level. It is not meant to be that way, it is just that MetLife is so huge that there is no one design to how Met works."

What do you like about working at MetLife?

"Good people."

"With layoff, the only advantage of working in Met (job security) is gone."

What do you like about working at MetLife?

"if you like slow and no pressure work environment; things take time to proceed."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be nice, be herself."

What don't you like about working at MetLife?

"Not much career advancement (most people just stay where they are); used to be secure but now layoffs all the time; management responded to market slowly, just started shipping jobs overseas."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Pay more attention to the long term goals and employees, not Wall Street analysts."

"Poor management and politics driving the IT department down the tubes."

What do you like about working at MetLife?

"Was let go due to restructure, don't like the firm at all."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Manage the people better, don't treat them like drones."

"Met is a wonderful company to work for and I'd go back in a heartbeat."

"Needs better in-house training."

"This was a consistent job with redundant tasks."

What do you like about working at MetLife?

"Lots of customer diversity."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do your homework on this company."

What don't you like about working at MetLife?

"Too much paperwork."

"MetLife was a good place to work until they decided to send jobs in India."

What do you like about working at MetLife?

"Good opportunities to learn and grow. Good salary and benefits."

What don't you like about working at MetLife?

"Downsizing to India."