Empower reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,429 total reviews)
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Edmund F. Murphy III

80% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Empower has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,429 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
5.0
Jun 3, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome benefits. Cheap full health care, good employer 401k match, encourages community service by offering paid time off to do community service, charity donation match, great paid time off, good pay, supportive and friendly environment, coworkers are all friendly and respectful, very progressive company, lots of discounts and benefits for working here (similar to AAA discounts), promotes continuing education with free classes for a number of different things (software, programs, interpersonal skills, professional skills etc.), good education reimbursement program.

Cons

The parking garage sucks at the greenwood village location. Honestly, nothing that other companies wouldn't have either. A little difficult to move up in the same department because the departments are relatively small since there are so many, but that means your job is much more specific which is nice. Yearly goal setting is pretty annoying but only have to deal with that once a year.

3.0
Jun 2, 2016

operations

Recommend
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Pros

a lot of overtime but they fed you dinner, decent compensation

Cons

hard to get time off, management not supportive, have to "know" someone to get ahead

1.0
May 30, 2016

Miserable Place

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I guess you could say a paycheck and benefits if you were really desperate to work here. The security lady is nice to talk to.

Cons

Walk around Great-West and you will find miserable people that don't smile which I'm guessing is a result of a very bland company culture that expects you to work with inept, angry management whom makes your workload the equivalent of two people. Then they pile on projects so kiss your work life balance away. The penny pinching executives don't value employees and you can tell because there has been a large number of people quitting and going elsewhere. Summer BBQ was taken away, no Holiday party, no more casual Friday dress like wearing jeans and tennis shoes, etc. This is like the worst discount airline that offers hardly anything to keep people happy here.

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