MetLife- it's OK. - Architect MetLife Employee Review

3.0
10 Mar 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay and good benefits. Prior to the last two waves of layoffs, it was not difficult to maintain a good work/life balance.

Cons

Information Technology is treated as an expense to be reduced, rather than a strategic asset to be developed. If you are a low to mid level developer, you will most likely be outsourced. MetLife was aggressively outsourcing IT jobs before the current economic crisis, and now the current crisis gives management the perfect opportunity to accelerate that trend. The current performance review system is a farce. Talented people, hard workers often get a mediocre rating simply due to the whim of a manager who may have never met the person or reviewed his or her work in detail.

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5.0
7 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great culture that actually cares about customers and employees

Cons

Old school and Legacy environment

2.0
16 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits, PTO, remote, some team mates are cool and super helpful. But they don’t want you being too chatty. Process process process. The pay is low for the stress is gives.

Cons

The pet department has really gone downhill ever since they implemented their “AA” system, which is just terrible to work with. You have to meet their metrics which it’s great to have QA and claim evaluations in place however, they will dock points for the most minor things, but you’ll see AA process things incorrectly, the supervisors process incorrectly, the team leads process incorrectly…. But only the adjusters will get points docked and write ups. And now they expect you to find the AA errors and send it to them, then send it back to you to correct…. But if YOU made that mistake, points docked. In the beginning, before AI, it was a really great job to have, I felt proud to come into work like I was making a difference but it turned into such a demoralizing and depressing job. They stopped treating us like humans over the past 12 months. Hearing the email and task alerts is enough to give you PTSD.

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