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      Principal Financial Group

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      Principal Financial Group reviews

      3.8

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (2,587 total reviews)
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      Deanna Strable

      81% approve of CEO

      68% positive business outlook

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      Principal Financial Group has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,587 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
      2.0
      May 3, 2020

      Bad management. Thankless job

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Work from home, culture, coworkers

      Cons

      Management is bad. If they don't like you for any reason they will micromanage you until you quit. Was personally picked apart by management-- that had nothing to do with the job. Got tired of it and left. Working at a much better company. Glad I left. Your experience here will depend entirely on your manager. I know people who have had great experiences here- but unfortunately for me I can't even drive by the place without feeling sick to my stomach about how terrible I feel like I was treated by my manager here.

      4.0
      Apr 13, 2019

      Great place to work, tricky to build your career over the years

      Senior web developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Good work life balance . 2. Sufficient freedom to try out new technologies 3. Plenty of platforms (both technical and business) to learn , experiment and express yourselves. 4. Good compensation and company policies 5. Mostly nice people and supportive colleagues

      Cons

      1. Recent focus to engineering culture is causing lots of distraction for developers. 2. Difficult to grow technically as the onus is entirely on yourself to self learn. 3. Lots of old projects and newer work is usually picked by home office counterparts. 4. Too many non-productive people and difficult to find a mentor 5. Lack of trainings. 6. Growing attrition problem as senior resources are leaving the company.

      3.0
      Mar 3, 2019

      HR Survivor

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Nice campus; good benefits; most coworkers are wonderful people

      Cons

      Severe technology deficit will make it difficult for PFG to compete in the future. PFG thinks it's more special than it actually is, and as a result, eschews outside expertise, preferring homegrown 'experts' who really aren't experts, but people who read and believe vendor sales pitches. The executive management group (EMG) doesn't function as a real team; rather they are a group of people, each of whom is maneuvering to advance their own agenda.

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