Empower reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,436 total reviews)
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Edmund F. Murphy III

80% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Empower has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,436 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Empower employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jun 22, 2024

Toxic company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They have unlimited vacation. Good luck using it.

Cons

My direct supervisor was extremely abusive to the team. - She regularly demeaned people publicly. She would scream at us in meetings. - She also screamed at others in meetings where there were no People above her level in attendance. She also cursed excessively and was very aggressive in her speech. - Since she joined, there have been at least 3 HR complaints filed against her for her verbal abuse and bullying. - Leadership did nothing about these complaints. As long as she painted herself as a fixer for projects, she was free to act as badly as she wanted to those below her in the hierarchy. - She put an employee on a performance improvement plan without telling said employee. - She called HR to do a wellness check with an employee’s emergency contact when employee wasn’t answering her work related text messages on a day off. - Manager wasn’t ever clear on her expectations and expected us to read her mind as to how she would have done the project. Employees would then get screamed at and belittled after the project. After I left, this manager was promoted and given responsibility over more people. So that should be all you need to know about the type of people who are valued.

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Empower Response
2y
We are sorry to hear about your experience. We always encourage associates to discuss concerns with leaders and/or Human Resources to address behavior that goes against our values and culture.
1.0
Jun 21, 2024

Growing company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Diversity, growth opportunities, new leaders

Cons

Maybe growing too fast and losing focus on core principles

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Empower Response
2y
Thank you for your feedback. We are a rapidly growing organization, which brings both change and opportunity.
1.0
Jun 21, 2024

Don’t choose Canada Life which is associated with Empower

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Not much actually… nothing just works right.

Cons

Canada Life, sister company of Empower, They hired a Director from Different state thinking that person will make amazing changes to the company, instead of changing culture, he started targeting the local people and mentally harassing them to make them quit, then he started hiring people from his state and his previous company to fill up the positions and create his own territory to rule. When you reach out to the person in regards to any office issue, first he needs to feel the lady who went with the issue, second thing scan the lady from top to bottom without any regards to people watching. Misusing his position for personal gains, probably company should investigate a little more on what exactly is happening. Parents trust you guys and send their daughters to work during the night. Great West Global one day you will be responsible for some poor lady’s life. It’s the TRUTH People like him are the reason why there is hate war between North Indians and South Indians.

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