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Principal Financial Group

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Principal Financial Group reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,586 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 2,586 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
Mar 9, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It was used to be flexible

Cons

Workload is unmanageable Work life balance

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Principal Financial Group Response
1y
Thanks for sharing your experience. We're invested in building the best possible experience for our employees and appreciate your feedback on workload as it helps us to grow and improve. In that spirit we encourage you to visit the HR Service Center to provide your feedback.
5.0
Mar 5, 2025

Great place

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote work available has been great

Cons

Can't say i have any at this time

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Principal Financial Group Response
1y
We appreciate your note on remote work. Thank you for sharing your experience!
4.0
Feb 28, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible, good benefits, leadership responsive to thoughts, great coworkers

Cons

Subpar pay, out of touch C Suite, chronically understaffed

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Principal Financial Group Response
1y
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We appreciate hearing about your personal experience and are glad to learn that you enjoy working with your team members and our unique work perks. 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.
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