May 9, 2020
MetLife Senior Software Development Engineer reviews
4.7
88% would recommend to a friend
Michel Khalaf
100% approve of CEO
99% positive business outlook
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6 reviews
3.0
Feb 7, 2020
Not a tech company, as they claim
Former employee, more than 1 year
New York, NY
Recommend
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Pros
MetLife offers great benefits for the whole family. They offer generally good insurance for low premiums. There is a good balance between life and work. There are few times where the schedule isn’t 9-5, but when there are it’s usually because of bad project planning and management. MetLife is a huge company that has been around for literally 150 years. Although the work is not always fun, there is job security and potential for long-term growth. A lot of people have been working there for well over 10-15 years.
Cons
MetLife loves to claim that they are a “tech company” to attract software engineers, but in reality they are not. Their decisions are always based on the bottom line and never on the well-being of employees. In my opinion, tech companies invest in their engineers by creating budgets for learning and development. I don’t think MetLife offers any of this, but if they do, they surely do not promote it. Tech companies also allow engineers to drive the technical direction of teams. Managers are generally non-technical with backgrounds in project management or business. Tech decisions are driven by the bottom line. Horrible Oracle and Microsoft tools are used because of long-standing relationships between them and MetLife. Finally, it is super boring to be an engineer here. Nothing you build will have much of an impact and techs that are truly challenging to build are mostly outsourced. Keep in mind that I worked in an app development team. This may not be the case for every engineer.
1.0
May 18, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros
Senior managers in Noida office are supportive and helpful. In depth and interactive trainings. Learning program are good.
Cons
1. HR/Admin policies are not at all employee friendly, no smartphones allowed. 2. Company is not at all good considering the financial, FnF and employee benefit policies- be prepared for huge deductions on leaving the company, they might even miscalculate the FnF and wont respond when you followup. 3. Odd shift timings and mismanaged office transport. Office hours(9 hrs)+Transport hours(2 hrs buffer each side) is a total of 12-13 hours shift. Better to keep your own vehicle instead, but that too won't solve the problem as if you live far away from office, they would not provide you parking stickers and using office transport becomes a mandate. 4. Even though managers are good, be prepared for filthy politics among the team members. 5. Work is not at all systematic, be prepared for rework every time as clients are global and they may change the requirements at development completion, even after approving daily progress demos everyday. 6. Last but not the least, inspite of permanent odd timings, the cafeteria is below average mark and none of the meals is sponsored by the office. The ratings being provided by me are only for pure Software development domain
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