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      MetLife

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      MetLife reviews

      3.7

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (6,434 total reviews)
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      Michel Khalaf

      82% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.2

      Senior management

      MetLife has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,434 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 Assurance industry (3.6 stars).

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      6K reviews
      2.0
      May 20, 2014

      IT Review

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good compensation, flexible work arrangement.

      Cons

      Constant restructuring. Rush to offshore work, then decide to start reeling some of the work back. Coinciding with pulling the jobs back, decision to consolidate/move jobs to another state, yielding even more loss of knowledge. Skill sets get stale.

      2.0
      May 3, 2014

      Company In Flux

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      MetLife offers a good benefits package including 401K matching. The enterprise is massive and the need for a variety of skills in IT engineering, administration and management is available. Recent massive layoffs may make for good opportunities for advancement as they rebuilt their enterprise resource teams in North Carolina. The company is expanding internationally, so having international experience may benefit you. If you move through corporate politics with alacrity, this may be a good company for you. For years they have had good work-from-home policies, but now that they are focusing on co-location in North Carolina, they have stated that this will be changing in the future.

      Cons

      Like many public companies, the emphasis is clearly on their financial performance above everything else. Recent history is a good example. MetLife is laying off more than 2,000 of it's most experienced employees in the northeast to move the majority of its domestic staff to North Carolina in exchange for tax considerations. Management has done this without sufficiently understanding what impact this will have on their ability to maintain an effective IT infrastructure, but instead are moving quickly to realize a high short term gain in salary and real estate costs. The institutional knowledge of how to get things done has been strongly impacted by forced turnover and there is a significant amount of disorder and inefficiency in their IT processes. Translation: expect long hours.

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