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      Principal Financial Group

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      Principal Financial Group reviews

      3.9

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (2,579 total reviews)
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      Deanna Strable

      82% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Principal Financial Group has an employee rating of 3.9 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
      3.0
      Mar 23, 2010

      Good place to start your career

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Great work life balance and flexibility (in most departments and work areas) - Good 401k match along with DB plan (pension) - diverse businesses, opportunity to learn about different business aspects - lots of learning and support in the initial years, good area for personal development

      Cons

      - limited career path beyond Sr IT analyst - salary caps and market reference points which do not necessarily match with market (in my opinion) - promotions based on relationship building and who you know - middle management (director, Asst Director) do not necessarily have leadership qualities, good managers with limited thinking. - to get promoted you have to put in your years rather than skills, talent and experience

      2.0
      Mar 18, 2010

      Management weak

      Financial representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible for producers, good support and training staff; Good alternative products, significant choice of investment products and alternative insurance products.

      Cons

      Home office traditional, inexperienced and secretive. Extremely useless with investmant support, crippling reliance on ineffective RIA and analysis. Limited product choice.

      3.0
      Mar 11, 2010

      Large Work Load - Low Pay -

      Legal support assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great Benefits if you take advantage of them. The flexability is next to none when it comes to the legal department.

      Cons

      The Principal Financial Group is a great company to work for. However; as a legal Support Assistant you are doing everybody else’s job and get noted as the catch all for the department when others can't perform up to par, or are too lazy to do their own job that they are being paid an inflated salary for. The company runs on a seniority pay scale, so you can have an employee in your department that doesn't do anything, but has been with the company since Jesus so they get paid outrageous amounts for their little effort. Communication within the legal department is horrible.

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