SCAMMERS RUN AWAY - Financial Advisor Northwestern Mutual Employee Review

1.0
12 Mar 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pros Nothing, they’ll sugar coat things, bring food or do some nice events like if it was “the office (US)” but it’s all a scam

Cons

It is a life insurance company cult, not financial advisors, they will make you believe it is and brainwash you but it isn’t, micromanaged all the time, don’t properly explain how you get paid, their whole pay system is a scam, big clients you don’t get paid until a while, it works like a pyramid scheme where you barely make any money since they are training you to give it to someone else. They’ll give you a forecast of your estimated income which no one ever makes and then brainwash you into thinking you’re not doing good enough and that you have potential to be better, until you hire other financial representatives and have them do the work for you, then you move in as director, then the cycle continues. It’s all a joke. Their whole little scam for the employees is hiring someone, getting 250 leads from them, have them work them while they barely make any money then hope they quit. They are hiring 24/7 and will lie to you and tell you they are choosing between 3 people when they are literally hiring all of them. They grab their warm markets and whatever happens, happens. They don’t care if you quit or not as long as you give them your warm market, friends and family. No legit business is going to have you harass your friends and family. Also they just care about selling life policies, their whole numbers are around life policies not investment accounts. If you read this and pay attention to everything they say or do you’ll realize it’s all baloonie. From scamming customers to scamming their employees.

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Pros

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Cons

None, I've had a great experience! This is an environment of growth, so it can require moments of being challenged and stretched to do things outside your comfort zone. I could see some people being uncomfortable with growth, so it's not the environment for everyone! But if you are willing to lean in, it will make such an impact on your life.

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