Company details

Newark, NJ

HEADCOUNT

10000+

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Finance

WEBSITE

https://www.prudential.com/

About the company

Prudential Financial is a large financial services company focused on insurance, retirement, and investment management. The company serves individuals, employers, and institutional clients with products such as life insurance, annuities, group benefits, and retirement solutions. Prudential Financial also operates a global asset manager, PGIM, which runs investment strategies across public and private markets. The company is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey and operates across the United States and multiple international markets.

Locations and presence

Prudential Financial is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, with business operations spanning the United States and international markets including Japan and other regions. For many corporate roles, Prudential Financial runs a hybrid setup (commonly two to three in-office days per week) with an additional “work from anywhere” option for eligible U.S. employees for up to four weeks per year.

Palpable Score

75.2

/ 100

Prudential Financial posts a steady stream of internships and structured rotational programs with unusually clear pay ranges for early-career roles. The hiring funnel is fairly well signposted in multiple listings, but candidate experience signals are mixed around responsiveness. Outcomes look strongest where internships feed into rotational tracks, while broader retention and promotion data is not published in a way that’s easy to verify externally.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

15.6

/ 20

The company hires early-career talent through recurring internship tracks like the Finance Internship Program and Global Technology & Operations internship roles that explicitly target students and recent graduates.

Prudential runs multiple structured rotational pathways (for example, Global Retirement & Insurance Leadership Development Program and Rotation Associate programs) that are designed as first professional roles with defined rotations.

The company’s early-career access evidence is concentrated in specific functions and programs, and public information does not clearly show overall intake volume across the whole enterprise.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.2

/ 20

The company publishes a repeatable application flow in program listings, including applying to up to three roles, a first-round recorded video interview, and final-round interviews either virtually or in person.

Prudential includes practical accessibility support for applicants by listing a dedicated accommodation contact for help completing the application process.

The company has mixed public signals on candidate experience, including reports of slow communication between application and final-round updates for rotational program candidates.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.1

/ 20

The company ties internships to structured development tracks (such as FLDP and technology rotation programs) that include formal training, mentoring, coaching, and rotational assignments across teams.

Prudential describes internships as “meaningful responsibilities” with presentation opportunities, plus ongoing feedback and networking built into the program design.

The company has intern feedback describing supportive managers, access to mentors, and program-organised community, but the consistency of that support outside marquee programs is hard to verify from public detail.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

16.1

/ 20

The company publishes hourly pay ranges for internships in multiple places, including examples in the low-to-high $30s per hour for Newark-based hybrid internship roles.

Prudential posts salary ranges for full-time early-career rotational programs (for example, a listed range in the high $60Ks to low $70Ks) and flags eligibility for incentives and benefits.

The company provides some benefits transparency in early-career materials, but public listings do not consistently show pay ranges across every early-career role family and location.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

14.2

/ 20

The company positions internships as pipelines into full-time rotational programs, explicitly stating that strong internship performance can lead to return internships or full-time entry into associate rotation tracks.

Prudential has public intern and employee feedback describing internal mobility, “hire from within” practices, and strong work-life balance, alongside some caution that growth can feel limited depending on placement and that return offers can be selective.

The company’s leadership publicly welcomes annual Leadership Development Program associate cohorts across multiple functions, but Prudential Financial does not publish clear retention rates, promotion timelines, or completion outcomes for these cohorts.

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Useful links & resources

Prudential Early Talent (student and graduate opportunities)Global Retirement & Insurance Leadership Development Program listing (details, pay range, hiring steps)Prudential Advisors Career Development Program (training and licensing support)