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Principal Financial Group

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Principal Financial Group reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(2,590 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 2,590 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
Aug 10, 2019

Good not great

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. If you are willing to contribute towards the company actively regardless of what kind of work comes your way, this is the best since a lot of it gets repeated with time. 2. You are allowed freedom (with time) to move between roles at beginner stages (Trainee) which is good if you're still indecisive about your career but it depends on your Manager. 3. Mostly, you get what you want (Promotions, Role changes, sometimes even team changes) if you show potential and are willing to wait.

Cons

1. As mentioned in the Pro, the work is pretty much similar throughout. 2. You might get to play around with a new technology but they are really not the bleeding edge tech type company. 3. There are structural changes occasionally which might affect some. (Not in terms of work or money though)

2.0
May 31, 2019

Major disappointment given its reputation

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Onsite free gym Most members of the IT team were great to work with

Cons

Please note: all of my experience was with the PGI group within Principal. Can't speak to any other groups. Toxic work environment. Management was pretty clueless about how to implement the cloud strategy. They want to move EVERYTHING to the cloud; not just that, but they want to move it to an different RDBMS system. They want to do this without providing any kind of meaningful training; the expectation seems to be the employees should spend their own personal time learning the cloud environment, while keeping up with their existing responsibilities. Absolutely no appreciation for the job being done to keep the lights on while this new strategy moves forward. There seems to be a philosophy that about 1/3 of the employees will get below average ratings, regardless if they are doing a good job or not. I heard from many employees who have experienced this. If you are looking for an IT job, stay away from PGI within Principal.

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