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Principal Financial Group

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Principal Financial Group reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(2,587 total reviews)
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Deanna Strable

81% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

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
Jul 23, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Only Pro left is Cab facility

Cons

Micro management on every employee. Team alignment of software engineers based on skills is not there. Higher ups are not supportive anymore. Earlier the organization was employee friendly and was supportive. Want employee to work like any other product based company but the pay is like service based.

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Principal Financial Group Response
10mo
Thank you for your feedback. We are committed to fostering capable, accountable leadership and continuously investing in development and improvement. We encourage you to contact your leadership or use confidential feedback channels to share your input.
1.0
May 29, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Unlimited FTO, work from home, good benefits.

Cons

Poor leadership, corporate directive and communication. Poor incentives. Will higher new employees at 110k but will allow current hires to work in the 70s/80s and give no raises. Ask for highest range. Bad morale. Would not recommend a friend to work there.

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Principal Financial Group Response
1y
Thank you for sharing your perspective. As a leading provider of retirement solutions and employee benefits, we offer our employees a competitive benefits package. One of our guiding principles of our global pay philosophy is to be market driven. This means that total pay is set and administered in alignment with the external labor markets in which we compete for talent. We use third-party market data to help ensure base salary and incentives are appropriately aligned.
2.0
May 27, 2025

Outsourcing and AI

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers. Not much else.

Cons

They are outsourcing analyst jobs to AI and overseas. The quality of decisions and customer service is nosediving.

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