They say you make your own schedule but they require you to be in the office for nine hours worth of meetings a week on top of the after hours they make you stay for. They say they have unaligned clients (clients whose advisors have left) which is true but those clients already have multiple policies and do not want to hear from you as they have already heard from other new employees. They expect you to call all of your friends and family multiple times over. It doesn’t matter if they say no. They will tell you that the company average for a first year employee is 70k but only one new Professional Associate ( 0-4 yr old prudential advisors) out of 30 make more than 70. The rest make 40 K and under. The retention rate during my year was 10%. Due to this, the office is dead. You can hear a pen drop in there. In other words, the office environment is awful.
They will tell you that this is the same for most offices but I haven’t found this to be true. They only pay commission. And do not care how much you make after you get 5 clients because the managers don’t have to pay prudential a fee if you quit after that. If you are looking for a career opportunity where others genuinely care about you, invest in you, and foster growth this is not the place for you.
