Empower reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,434 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 2,434 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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2K reviews
1.0
Aug 27, 2018

Stuck in the Stone Ages

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Absolutely no pros to working at this company.

Cons

Technology teams have no leadership. Technologies used are 20 years old. On-prem, datacenter, no forwarding thinking. Significant gender bias at every level. Management style is command and control.

1.0
Aug 13, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The only thing I liked about Great West was it provides 3 times free food to employees.

Cons

The managers really needs a session on how to treat there employees because employees are treated as machines rather than humans. Majority of its operations are in to night shift. Working in night shift is fine, even doing over time is fine sometimes due to unexpected business requirements. But the issue in GW is since the employees are treated as machines there is no harm in stretching for 3-4 hours daily thats what the managers think. During my tenure in GW I was sleep deprived and in terms pf carrier growth also GW doesn't offer much. Less pay, less hike, less bonus; over all the compensation is not even as per market standards. I remember, once we had a session with the Director. We shared few negative feedback to him regarding certain issues we were facing. Rather than assuring us that the issue will be soon resolved by the management, he simply ignored what me said started giving lame explanations. Perhaps, his ego was hurt because of us, thats why after that session he started targeting us for all wrong reasons. This is what all the managers do in GW when some one raises a voices regarding the wrong unprofessional activities happening there.

5.0
Aug 10, 2018

New Employee

Anonymous employee
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Pros

As a new employee I have been very pleased with the interview and the onboarding process. Everyone has been professional and considerate.

Cons

I have no cons at this time.

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