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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

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
4.0
Aug 18, 2015

Good company

Recommend
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Pros

Great work/life balance. Company cares about community.

Cons

Advancement is slow moving

4.0
Aug 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance is great. I'm not micromanaged, but cant say that's true for everyone. My boss leaves me alone because I am productive and do what needs to be done. Pay is okay, but could be better. Great people, great values. I feel like they care about me as a person

Cons

Minor promotions early in my career were easy, but once I arrived at a mid career point, the opportunities were minimal. Its much easier to move up if you are willing to move anywhere, or if you stay in the home office in Des Moines. If you are not in Des Moines, its easy to feel like you are almost completely on your own.

2.0
Aug 18, 2015

Great Benefits, poor pay

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits offered were great, the Prenatal and Pregnancy benefits were great and had a limit on out of pocket maximum that were better than the just normal health care benefits. Not sure if its still around but was great when we were having kids

Cons

The pay was not great, I was located in a remote office was was getting paid less compared to counterparts that worked in Des Moines that would get paid more because of living cost was greater. Also didn't like the environment that the checkers on our work would essentially be the ones in control of us getting a raise or not. We were also limited on how many people in the department that were able to get raises due to budget limitations and it was very cutthroat.

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