Opportunity, but at a cost - Financial Advisor MassMutual Employee Review

4.0
16 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Unlimited earning potential Great sales training Cool community Lots of independence It is what you make of it

Cons

Very difficult to get started You're supposed to give quality advice to clients but you your compensation and benefits are heavily dependent on selling proprietary life insurance, disability insurance, and long term care insurance. It's really easy to convince yourself that somebody needs something when your livelihood depends on it. If you want to manage investments, it is very hard to get started as they take a huge portion of your revenue until you grow a substantial book. They want you to sell insurance and don't want you distracted by other things.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
27 May 2026
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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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