Pros
Perfect If you are ready to retire and want to die slowly and painfully or if you like an environment that is akin to a basement with no lights and very little social interaction.
Cons
I dont know where to start. Hands down the absolute worst place I have ever been. Lets start with the MetLife culture. Everyone knows when you first start a job you are reserved and cautious how you act to your new fellow employees. Then you open up and show your personality when you are comfortable. Well at Metlife the Culture is that awkwardness of your first day of work EVERY SINGLE DAY. No one looks at you in the eyes when walking by in the halls. Everyone purposely avoids each other to avoid any social interaction. And you have to pay for instant coffee, gym and expensive cafeteria prices. Now on to the jobs. Lets start with their trading group. First off its an insurance company so no making profits on their trading desks (Its a cost center rather than a profit center) Old antiquated systems with software integration that doesnt work. Their trade booking and operations platform is hilariously cumbersome with only 2 people in both of trading and ops that knows how it works. Couple that with a unbelievably O.C.D helicopter manager and you have a recipe for procedures that are redundant 4 times over. Now i guess the reason that is needed because you only work 4 months out of the year. Seriously there are weeks where you can just sit there and do nothing and that ok.. because there is no meaningful stuff to do there. The work is garbage and meaningless and the fellow employees are just plain disgusting/horrible with no personalities. I am surprise they work on a trading floor as they deserve to be put in a windowless room in the basement to never be heard from again. Investments- If you are a research analyst in the investments group you can not escape from the bs either. No recognition, ridiculous timelines and requests. No one is happy no one is learning anything usefull. Everyone is constantly talking about leaving and openly looking for other jobs. The funny thing is that in this group and in trading everyone is from UPENN and Georgetown all very great schools. Metlife thinks they can attract "great talent" in reality its desperate talent. The only reason any of the students work at metlife is because we are in the recession and everyone is desperate for a job. Because of that 95% of the analyst class leaves in less than 2 years!!! That is an insane turnover rate for such a "World Class" organization. Oh yeah MetLife has an analyst "Program" that lasts 4 years.. once the 4 years is up you are out.. they havent changed that in years because they have noticed that everyone leaves at the 2 year mark... No!!?? really?! You mean to tell me you hire exceptional talent, bring them on and provide absolutely ZERO room for growth and everyone leaves??? I am shocked! Lower management - If you are part of management and you dont have an actual office you will get a promotion once everyone 10 years if you are lucky. Learn to play politics cause apparently with no work to do you have alot of time to practice your back stabbing skills. Upper Management is a joke here - half the guys are MetLifers (Poor souls) and the others are from the street where they could no longer succeed and need a place to plug their deflating ego. It is incredible how this place is still in business. They are resting on their size and there is no other reason why they are still around. I can go on and on about this but I believe this review and every other review that has some detail paints a fairly consistent picture. Unless you are absolutely desperate do not work here. IF you do then keep applying to jobs else where from day one. I am going to end on this note: When EVERY company wide MANAGER MEETING starts with your guest speaker (current manager) saying " When I first started at MetLife I didnt think I was going to be here for this long.." you have a serious serious problem. I heard 4 different Senior management start their speeches that way. Seriously??? Even they cant believe they got trapped at such a company for so long.