Never Ever Work Here - Financial Advisor Equitable Advisors Employee Review

1.0
14 Apr 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There aren't really any except learning the industry and making friends with co-workers who are fighting for survival with you.

Cons

You will be thrust into a legal pyramid scheme. Your manager will coerce you into exploiting your friends and family for clients into terrible insurance products. When you burn through that you will cold call. The majority of positive reviews left for this company are from managers who rely on higher ratings so they can recruit more unsuspecting young people or from new advisers that that don't know any better yet that they asked to leave good reviews. You will sell insurance products and you will not learn true wealth management. This is a fair warning.....90% of people will hate working for this company. The turnover rate is EXTREMELY high.

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5.0
2 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Compensation structure, product availability, brokerage system, overall tools, open structure to do best for your clients

Cons

Support staff are more hands off, not a lot of in house support staff members.

1.0
8 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good place for career changers to get financial licenses (they will license anybody)

Cons

Very bad pay model for new hires- will tell you 6% commissions on certain products but then you have to kick up 10% to your manager and the other half of what's left to whoever is working w you because they make you go out in pairs...and mostly seem want to get ahold of all your friends and family for sales you can't participate on without the 66....but you have no time to study that bc you are too busy selling for the products that don't require it to make quota, as your clock starts when you pass the 7, so pretty much they just want your people. It's very eat what you kill, and then only after it's been picked over.... which is fine if you're young with no obligations, but not great if you have a family. If you were an existing advisor and had your own book/contacts it could work. Otherwise get your licenses, learn a little, but don't be afraid to move on to other opportunities.

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