Prudential reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(5,228 total reviews)
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59% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Prudential has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 5,228 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Prudential employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Aug 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Learn a lot about financial planning for retirement

Cons

Commission only. The company makes it sound like a glorious job when in reality you are making a ton of cold calls. Basically harassing people by calling them every other day to try to get your foot in the door to sell them more insurance. They sugar coat your compensation during your pre-contact phase. You get $10 an hour up to 40 hours but you need to work a lot more than the 40 hours you are paid for... and then what ever commission you would have made from these hours, you never see because you made the $10 an hour (which they don't tell you when you are going through this horrible process- they basically tell you that you get the commission on top of your $10 an hour for 40 hours). But I guess they don't tell you any of that because the managers are only concerned about getting you to sign on with the company so they receive a bigger bonus.

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Thank you for your comments. As you know, a career in financial services can be very challenging yet also rewarding. While it sounds as if the Financial Professional Associate opportunity may not have been a good fit for you, we wish you well in your career path.
3.0
Jul 29, 2017

Satisfactory

Recommend
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Pros

To be part of a great Company who has turned Newark around. Great reputation, they are moral and ethical. Met some great people.

Cons

No work life balance, old management who have never experienced anything outside of Prudential. Older management needs to be retrained to keep up with the modern times.

2.0
Jul 19, 2017

Accounting

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Looks good on a resume.

Cons

Pay was low, had to pull teeth on initial offer to get something marginally decent. Pru advertises a really awesome culture & values system; I didn't quite see this culture or value system ever be embodied or realized in day to day business interactions within the company. Mostly due to corporate politics being at a nearly toxic-level. Petty, combative, and counter-productive environment when dealing with other departments. Have never encountered a place like this in my career....ever. Too many managers, not enough workers. Assigned expectations and responsibilities well beyond pay grade and description, which required excessive overtime to complete duties. If you're lucky enough to realize you need to hold your "reports to" manager accountable for delivering on career-progression promises and timelines early on, there may be hope to progress and negotiate... that is IF you can simultaneously deal with the bureaucracy and Corporate-insanity politics that exist within this company. You will be placed on a career-track that will not acknowledge your credentials, work-ethic, and quality of work until you've earned whatever the deemed "time-frame" of that internal tracker should be. Hard work and merit don't matter here folks; it's all about how much time you've been with the company before anyone with power will *tangibly* acknowledge your value via pay/promotion, and put the title and money where their mouths are, UNLESS you're initially hired at a high level or executive level position to start.

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