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Neilson Financial Services

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Neilson Financial Services Reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(286 total reviews)

Gavin Donnelly

70% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Neilson Financial Services has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 286 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Neilson Financial Services employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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286 reviews
1.0
13 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great colleagues who trauma bonded, definitely made some life-long friends. Free lunches on Wed and Fri. Free fruit and timtams.

Cons

I was under the impression that this was a good place to work based upon the reviews from this site and also from the hiring manager. The pay frequency is Monthly and it is non-negotiable. When I was hired and received my offer letter, I notified them of my leave and they didn't say anything. Once my contract was signed (and I had resigned from my previous job) I was then notified that I couldn't take leave which was already planned and booked. The training process is unnecessarily difficult with intense role-plays with managers. It is supposed to be for 3 weeks, but before the end of two weeks, they already have you on the phone and if you do not perform well, then you're potentially going to get fired. When they fire your colleagues, they don't let you know that the person was let go, you just have to figure it out when your colleagues disappear. The information between Training Team and QA team conflict. If you question them, then you're told that you're not coachable. They have a stupid thing called "hotpot" that they don't even explain to the newbies, they just tell you you have to move and sit at another desk to do the job you're already doing. I was later told that this is for low performing staff, i.e. if you haven't made a sale in a day, you have to go into the hotpot. When I expressed my discomfort with this, the sales manager expressed a lack of empathy and told me he will escalate the issue to higher management. When I had that meeting with higher management, they explained that new leads come in - but that's not the case, my new leads were always on 0. This place only internally hires for sales management positions, so there are a bunch of people with zero management/leadership skills running the teams and therefore morale overall is very bad, but they expect you to perform well, and as a reward you get a team meeting lol. It does not make sense. There was a sales manager who was fired after 6 people in his team resigned. He was a micromanager, always hovered at my desk, wouldn't let me speak to my team members, but expected me to have longwinded conversations with him. This place is an extremely toxic place to work, just because the building is nice, the location is good don't let it fool you, it's a horrible place to work, you can't look at your phone at all. Every break you take is timed. Good people who worked there were resigning because they weren't appreciated for their effort. If you make multiple sales in a day, you get praised but for like 1 second, then they expect more. They think "squeezing the chicken" is incentive to make sales, but they were regularly reminding us in the teams chat to squeeze the damn chicken to make sure the new newbies would feel excited. Haha. If you make any errors in your sales, you lose most of your comission. I do not recommend working here if you want to maintain your peace, sanity and happiness. There's a very high turnover of staff. This company might not even last much longer.

2.0
28 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- amazing colleagues and approachable leadership - free lunch on wednesday and friday - nice office

Cons

- warm leads but feels like cold calling at times as customers don't remember expressing interest in insurance and we're calling them without notice - high staff turnover - no commission, you get a bonus instead - calling multiple times a day can be repetitive - not great long term

2.0
22 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They have good training and the trainers are very nice, at least in training anyway. Your workmates are great. The staff I joined with were amongst the best I've worked with in years but that wasn't enough for me to stay at the company. Their offices are centrally located. They have two free catered lunches each week. It's full time permanent. They offer incentives. The sales targets of 1.2 per day are achievable however a lot comes down to luck rather than skill. Some people genuinely just want a quote and are not actually ready to buy, especially given the massive difference between what the ads say and what they will acutally pay. If you quit you will get a week in lieu without having to stay for that week. The coffee machine in the office is good.

Cons

They have ridiculously high turnover through sacking staff from day 5 or people quitting. They don't let you charge your phone at your desk, instead asking you to charge it elsewhere (totally disregarding that if something happened to your phone they probably wouldn't compensate you). They don't let you even look at your phone. They have mandated breaks. They expect you to be at your desk before you start (time you are not paid for so esssentially expecting you to work for free). They focus on trivial matters like clothing, when this is a contact centre environment and nobody sees you. They say they don't, but they do use pressure sales techniques and prey on the vulnerable or elderly. They create an environment where new starters are worried about being fired. Several people I spoke to in my short time at the company were worried about getting fired and yet they have another cohort starting in two weeks time. Why hire so many staff if the majority are expected to quit or be fired? Shouldn't you make conditions better so people want to stay? They micro manage and don't give you breathing space. They don't truly care about results. You can be selling better than others and they'll still find faults in what you do, which is counter productive. Even though it's a legal requirement they don't allow time off for important things that are valid such as a medical appointment, or a one off event. They sack people within a week or two of starting and more will quit in that time as well (I was one of those who quit after seeing how they mistreated other staff). Don't create an environment where several staff are anxious that they'll be fired even though they are very capable individuals. Don't gaslight and lie to your staff. Treat your customers better - it is really predatory and deceptive advertising, even though the legal term is correct, it's still misleading and you're preying on the vulnerable (there is training for this but once you're on the floor the trainers will expect you to disregard this). The trainers will expect you to disregard what someone has said about their health so a policy can be approved. I had one such case where a potential customer said something and I was told I should have qualified them, even though the insurance policy PDS says that certain people can't be covered.

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