Prudential Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details At the job fair. Mass Mutual mentioned that they are offering salary based first year advisors between 55-65k, car, bonus, benefits package, health insurance or more. Does anyone out there currently work as a first year agent? How do you like it? The sales manager quoted, "Some of our first year agents make $110k." They've done very well.

Reason for Declining – small salary

Interview Details Recruiter contacted me about an "opportunity". After a brief discussion I was asked to take a Career Assessment test which I was told would measure my sales ability. I took the test and was contacted back right away to come in for a interview. I asked if this were a commission job and was told no. The first interview was mostly a meet and greet, I was asked back for a second interview, they scheduled it during my first interview which is not how interviews usually go which made me a bit leery.

On the second interview I was told I needed to start contacting friends and family to see if they would buy from me if I went into this business. At this point I asked how I would be paid and was told "performance based" and "support money" that they "gave me" after I hit certain sales levels so they spin it into a nicer way to say commission and bonus.

I couldn't actually get any details about compensation until the last interview. It was explained to me then that Prudential would always hold back some of my money as collateral against me in case someone canceled something they bought from me. I was told no matter how long i work there Prudential would always have a minimum of $3600 of my money in a special draw account that I could never receive in full and paid me no interest while it sat there. If i ever quit, this money would not be released to me for 14 weeks.

I was told I could make money other ways like bringing other people in to work there. The more i heard, the more I realized this was like a legal pyramid scheme and declined the offer.

Reason for Declining – They told me I would be acting as a financial advisor but yet said I could not legally call myself that. I realized they were looking for salespeople and that they had tried to get me to buy into it a little at a time just like they explained they would teach me to do with my potential customers

Interview Details Went to target school. First round interview was on campus (30 min with one person). Second round interview was at HQ with six people (30 min each) + the managing director of the group (15 min). Interview was a mix of technical and behavioral/fit questions. The technical questions are in the form of what you would do in hypothetical scenarios. Offer came from HR 3 weeks later.

Interview Details Had one interview one-on-one then a group interview but the 5 people in the group all talked to the 5 Prudential sales people individually then we had a sales simulation

Interview Details Phone interview and request to complete application. App is cpmpleted, now I am awaiting assessment test.

Interview Details First question was self introduction, following a series of questions related to my experience mentioned in the introduction. Most of the questions are about the previous job duties and the difficulties. And when the interview was about to end, the interviewer ask me some behavioral type questions. The whole interview lasted for around 1 hour.

Interview Details I was referred by a current employee to apply online for the position. It sounded like a great opportunity to enter a new career field. The first step was to fill out a simple preliminary online application. I was then instructed to take an online personality assessment after which I was informed that I was no longer a candidate.

Interview Details online application and face to face inteview

Interview Details Multiple steps, if you can handle a basic behavioral interview and fulfill their project 200 (which is very time consuming) they will be interested. They really sell the position and make it seem like you can make big money relatively quickly. It seemed fishy and I never felt like they were completely honest.

Reason for Declining – I didn't think it was right for me.