Awesome Place to Work - Financial Advisor MassMutual Employee Review

5.0
22 Mar 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The ability to build your own business- This opportunity allows you to build your own process, client base and business model. There are opportunities for joint work with other advisers who are experienced. Selfless management team- They management team here does everything in their power to help you achieve your personal goals in regards to building your own business. They ensure that you are on track and hold you to the expectations you set for yourself. You get what you put in- This career is not for the faint of heart or those who want something handed to them. If you do not wake up every day to find people that you can help educate and provide solutions to their problems then this isn't a job for you. Hands on help- There are numerous ways the office and staff help advisors with their business. The training program here has become top notch and is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible. The staff is exceptionally helpful with marketing events, business coordinating and creating an incredible client experience

Cons

100% Commission Base This is not a career path for everyone. You cannot sit around and hope for clients to seek you out. The learning curve is steep but the joint work partners help fix that.

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Cons

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Pros

• Decent benefits • Some good individual contributors and colleagues.

Cons

• Extremely high workload — regularly expected to work 60-80+ hours per week • Constant scope changes with unrealistic expectations and impossible deadlines • Upper management was disconnected and showed little concern for employee well-being • Highly political environment where internal politics often outweighed actual performance • Mass layoffs that eliminated roughly half the engineering team, followed by offshoring many roles to India — even after many of us had dedicated 4+ years to the company • Extremely stressful and unsustainable culture leading to widespread burnout

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