I would stay until you’re comfortable selling on your own, then go be an independent agent - Licensed Life Insurance Agent Prudential Employee Review

3.0
17 Mar 2021
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Pros

The ability to be a W-2 employee while getting your feet wet in life insurance is great. They do pay for your licenses in states that you don’t have. Total I may have 30 licenses, they paid for 25 of those. My manager is cool and helpful. Gives insights and help to increase sales

Cons

In Life Insurance as an independent agent, you typically have the opportunity to get between 80-90% of the first year premium that you sell. At Assurance, you start 114% of the FIRST MONTH. It’s really a rip off. As a 1099 agent, its 225% of the first month and that’s not really any better. You have to sit on the phone for HOURS with extremely long wait times for calls. The calls that you do get are either about a bogus ad eluding to $15 for $150k of insurance for seniors. Now there are some people that do not have long wait times and those people are also getting the most sales....... but how do you make more sales if you’re getting maybe 20 calls in a day?

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
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Pros

The culture and the way Pru treats it's employees is wonderful. They vet their hires thorougly, so you rarely find anyone that is not terrific in their role. Their benefits are also great.

Cons

Current AI adaptation has sent the tech side of the organization into a bit of a spin, as it has in almost all organizations. Due to that, some reorganization have been occurring, and many very talented leaders have been laid off. But the focus remains on the customer always, and no doubt these changes will level off soon.

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