Northwestern Mutual

Great training program. Always recruiting.

They make you go through a lot of education, and licensing, and jump through a million hoops all the time. Not just in the beginning during training, but it's an expectation to keep this up and you're busily trying to keep up with their education and licensing requirements that you can't actually do your work. Your boss might be someone with an unrelated background or someone that has entered into the industry of selling insurance right out of college. They don't actually know what they're doing, they're just glorified salespeople. During the annual meeting, you sit through A TON of awards and it's the same 10 people that go up there and it's like a Mormon rally with everyone in blue suits and blond women on their arms with 8 kids following behind. It's super creepy. DO NOT DRINK THE PUNCH!

Definitely the worst job I've ever had. Management is so incompetent. There is no structure and communication between departments and workers. Working here is such chaos and management consists of the worst kind of people.

Unless you have a relative or tie to this company (a financial advisor at this company), I'd avoid working here if I were you. There are plenty of other places that are supportive, flexible, and pay fairly. I started here in an entry level position; it was very legitimately the worst job I have ever had. I was ripped out of promised bonuses and pay increase after a promotion. The reps are treated like gold, though, if you are able to become a rep. Otherwise, you are taking care of grunt work and treated like less than. They do put on quite a good show & front about having a nice company culture, though, I never saw this come into fruition.

I was an intern working here for a summer. The culture was phenomenal and high energy however, there was no pay other than $100 a week for showing up to training. Outside of that, it was 100% commission based of which you had to build your own book of clients via your personal connections. It was a fun experience working here but if you're looking for a job that's salaried and has benefits this is not the place!