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Principal Financial Group

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Principal Financial Group reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(2,579 total reviews)
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82% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Principal Financial Group has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,579 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Principal Financial Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Mar 20, 2017

Dinosaurs still roam in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Pros

One of the few things to evolve beyond the Triassic period is the flexibility for some jobs to work from home. Benefits are decent as is the pay. Senior level management seems to genuinely care and want to serve as good role models.

Cons

Sales management in the benefits division is crusty and reptilian. Lifers in the home office are straight off the set of Madmen -outdated thinking and tolerance for sexism, ageism and homophobia in the sales offices. If you're a sales person and you have xy chromosomes, you're at the top of the food chain. And don't try to innovate - you'll be punished.The best thing that could happen to sales management is mass extinction...

1.0
Oct 10, 2016
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Pros

Climate-controlled office. Indoor plumbing. Briefly spoke with a celebrity on the phone at my oh-so-glamorous call center cubicle. Having learned that I will never work at such a horrible company again.

Cons

Feeling like a number in a large, hierarchical, dysfunctional organization. Micromanaged to cellular level. Pretty much stuck at my cubicle the whole day without much freedom to walk around.

1.0
Mar 17, 2016
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Pros

Work life balance Infrastructure (Magarpatta) Cab good recreation room thanks giving gifts

Cons

Which one to pick ? It was one of the best place to work certainly but things started to change from 2014. You can not learn a new technology, you can not grow, No onsite, No competitive salary , worst HR , worst management it can ruin your whole career if you join after having 2-4 years of exp. Basically they do not have anything to offer to the people who wants to learn. The scenario in QA is the pathetic they hired some senior consultant to monitor QA and that was the decision which is going wrong against PGS. When you hire mid management/higher management people from Service industry they can damage the culture of a captive unit which is happening now. And specially Indian management is ruining the name of THE PRINCIPAL. Time has not yet gone if controlling power remains with PFG still they can save the brand value of PGS else it would become worse sooner,. People do not get promotion for good work but for all other odd thing (you can imagine the worst thing you could do to get a promotion)

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