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      Guardian Life

      Engaged Employer

      Guardian Life reviews

      3.5

      58% would recommend to a friend

      (1,690 total reviews)
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      Andrew McMahon

      69% approve of CEO

      60% positive business outlook

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      Guardian Life has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,690 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Guardian Life employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.7 stars).

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      2K reviews
      4.0
      Jan 28, 2015

      This was a professional environment to work in.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good People, professional environment, 401 match

      Cons

      Downsizing, Organizational changes, Company is cutting back on numerous departments to save money,

      3.0
      Jan 28, 2015

      Ok company - No real opportunities for growth

      Financial analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Guardian has flexible hours and the ability to leave for a dr's appointment / attend a child's school function. There are some work from home opportunities throughout the company, however, they are not realized in my department yet. Relatively stress free environment.

      Cons

      There really aren't any opportunities for growth unless someone leaves the company or you're here 20+ years. Six Sigma training is on a hand picked basis and few and far between. The health insurance kind of stinks and is expensive. No work from home opportunities even though we have laptops and are quite capable of doing so.

      3.0
      Jan 26, 2015

      Fairly decent overall

      Human resources reporting & data analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      This is one of the few companies I know of that still has a pension program, so that's fairly significant. They've also started emphasizing employee health recently- mostly because the company tends to be both older and less healthy than average- so it will hopefully result in some decent perks. The time off policy is fairly generous at 14 vacation days per year to start, and I think you start getting more time at 5 years of service.

      Cons

      There seems to be a culture of "fire drills"- many requests come in from senior management and everything needs to be dropped to take care of this as soon as humanly possible. This, of course, tends to result in both mistakes on the fire drill and sometimes missed deadlines for the day-to-day work, which reflects poorly. It can be frustrating to work in such a reactive (rather than proactive) environment.

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