MetLife reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(6,433 total reviews)
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Michel Khalaf

82% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

MetLife has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 6,433 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 Seguros industry (3.6 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Jun 29, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

MetLife used to be a company that cared about it's employees and customers. There are few reasons to work for Met. The only reason would be a paycheck until you can find something better. They have decided that they can get things done cheaper over seas and they are outsourcing work out of the country. The people who stay are hoping for a buy out or are hanging on until retirement. They are staffing with temporary workers so they don't have to pay benefits. Only the people who have been there for a long time get the good benefits. Their goal is to staff service areas for the least possible amount of money. Therefore the service to customers stinks.

Cons

Mistreatment of employees and a total lack of regard for customers. MetLife used to stand for customer service. Now customers are treated as a bother. People who are still employed in the Call Center are not allowed to help customers. The directive is to get the person off the phone in the least amount of time. The groups that have been outsourced overseas have nice people who answer the phones but they are clueless on how to understand someones problem. They are also not understanable when they speak. Met would be very happy if no one called for service. They treat customers and employees as if they had no right to service.

2.0
Feb 15, 2026

Management woes

Recommend
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Pros

- Ability to earn more based on performance - Remote position

Cons

- High employee turnover - Punishing call volume; not a nanosecond to ponder the mysteries of life - Constant Microsoft Teams meetings with supervisors, including pointless 1on1 meetings to discuss your performance - Once had my supervisor tell me 'you talk to customers like they're not even human' because she felt I neglected to use the kind of prefabricated phrases management expects you to use even if the customer themselves is very satisfied and gives you a glowing review. - Myriad technical issues that upset customers and cause them serious hardship are rarely addressed

3.0
Jul 20, 2023

Be very flexible

Recommend
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Pros

Metlife was upfront when they said to "be very flexible" since there were always changes (daily, sometimes hourly) in what we were to do, and how we were measured and coached. It was like trying to build a skyscraper during an earthquake. The variables of the job were so diverse that even months of intensive training barely scratched the surface and it felt very much like being thrown in the pool unprepared to learn how to swim. Eventually, the entire home/auto division was scaled way down (massive layoffs, starting at the top) and the division was sold as corporate decided to go a different direction.

Cons

Very stiff corporate structure highly dependent on metrics, with a lot more "stick" than "carrot" in terms of motivation. Very little human consideration or interaction beyond taking incoming calls at a rate that felt like drinking from a firehose (even after I was very experienced). They tried, sort of, but it was always in the form of some dumb online game.

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