Vantaggi
Thrivent has a lot of wonderful people who work here and was once a leader in the faith based world of insurance and investments. The day to day employees work hard and are very passionate about their jobs. They take their jobs seriously and really do quite well.
Svantaggi
Upper management has lost it's way. There is no market for this organization anymore. Since leaving the Lutheran world, Thrivent has struggled to create an identity for itself. Leaving it a shell of what it used to be. It's really too bad because the concept of what Thrivent should be is what the world needs more of. What upper management has done is twisted Thrivent's products into something you must sell instead of being what clients want. Thrivent's way of treating the sales staff is "it must be you if our products aren't selling". Instead, most sales organizations realize it's the product that isn't working and therefore must be updated to what clients want. This is where the problem of why the organization continues to shrink. Management doesn't seem to understand this and therefore Thrivent will continue to struggle.