I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at New York Life (Glendale, CA) in Jun 2016
Interview
Total of 4 interviews with the partner and managing partner. They want to see if you are a good fit for the job, but the interview is pretty easy with no questions asking about technical knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are some traits that you think will help you excel in this position?
My interview was interesting and educational. I was immediately shown a tool that could help people protect and accumulate wealth for the future. My manager talked at length about helping people and families. My only complaint, and this seems to be industry-wide, is that there was no talk about the massive turnover in this industry and how most people leave the industry within a few short months or a year. It's an extremely difficult field to succeed in and they didn't talk about that. They talked, instead, about the potential of what you could earn. I found the interview to be motivating and interesting enough that I elected to work with the company and have largely had a positive experience. However, I feel that the interview was deceptive in glossing over how many people fail at it. The manager I met with also was dishonest about how much his team was earning, which I later found out in a meeting in which he was trying to motivate us by showing where people were at. Nobody in his team was making what he claimed in the interview.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at New York Life (Saint Louis, MO) in Jan 2020
Interview
easy traditional, 3 step interview, phone call then meeting with managing partner, then HR. super nice and informational. They want to know who you know not what you know. I don't have anything bad to say about the interview.