Prudential reviews

In the nearly 10 years with this company's Group Insurance, I’ve seen it change from a really great place to work into a mean, dysfunctional and harsh environment. The culture is horrible. Technology is old. GI doesn't treat their employees as their best assets. We are their biggest liabilities. If you don’t agree with “senior leadership” your job is "eliminated". You are walking on eggshells every day. Everyone is stressed out over job security and not having enough people to get the work done. Even if you do a great job the threat of termination is always in the air and you never know which day will be your last. Senior “leaders” are brought in to “fix” things but really make it worse because they sit behind closed doors and have no clue how their departments get the work done--mainly because they never asked and only speak to their peers. They are very skilled though at creating disgruntled & stressed out employees. They can’t seem to make up their minds on how to run the business and make some money. When things go wrong everyone starts finger pointing until they can find a scape goat. People are fed up and would leave in a New York minute. Morale is in the gutter. And if your over 40 years old don’t even think about working there or lasting too long. They are purging all of the long term (older) employees by kicking them to the curb. All in all if your looking to add a great company name to your resume, stop by for a few years but get out quickly before they crush your soul.

Quick to hire and quick to fire. Prudential is very overfunded in their pension, so they are not hesitant to do lay offs and pay out severance. Most of the time, this occurs because you happen to be in the wrong business unit, or organization. Or.... your work is outsourced. What they don't do, is try to get you placed in anticipation of a lay off. Recently over 100 were laid off, yet there were over 600 jobs advertised internally. This is clearly an opportunity for HR.