A bad company that's getting worse - Retirement Services MassMutual Employee Review

1.0
22 July 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good work/life balance, some good teammates among the rest, benefits are great, if you're able to completely drink the Kool-Aid then you can find some satisfaction in the work itself

Cons

Rolling layoffs - you should never feel secure, negotiate a good starting salary because you will not receive a raise higher than 2-3%, senior and other upper management rule by fear, opportunities to advance are granted by politics and who's your friend and NOT by merit, a program called the MMWay is a model for self-micromanaging both your time and your projects and is a drain on the company, morale is exceptionally low company-wide

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Cons

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Pros

• Decent benefits • Some good individual contributors and colleagues.

Cons

• Extremely high workload — regularly expected to work 60-80+ hours per week • Constant scope changes with unrealistic expectations and impossible deadlines • Upper management was disconnected and showed little concern for employee well-being • Highly political environment where internal politics often outweighed actual performance • Mass layoffs that eliminated roughly half the engineering team, followed by offshoring many roles to India — even after many of us had dedicated 4+ years to the company • Extremely stressful and unsustainable culture leading to widespread burnout

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