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Principal Financial Group

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Principal Financial Group reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,584 total reviews)
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81% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Principal Financial Group has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,584 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 Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Oct 19, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

PFG has the best daycare in Des Moines. They also offer pension with the 401k.

Cons

Favoritism of management, no work/life balance, unrealistic expectations with low pay. Every year management gives the "2.8% bucket" lecture... hard workers who aren't the favorites get even less of a raise. They expect employees to come back from maternity leave, get no training, then produce the same amount of work as those fully trained. Forget about calling in! After calling in 3x in one year, management made up a "policy " threatening termination of employment if it continued to occur even AFTER physicians notes were furnished and when employee proved the policy didn't exist PRIOR to the call ins. Sales staff are unreasonable and unprofessional yet I was to support them with high degree of professionalism, total double standard.

1.0
Oct 26, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Used to be a fun place to work and was decent salary.

Cons

After over 40 years of service was forced to take early retirement. I was hoping to work until normal retirement to get a full pension, but I guess they decided they didn't want to have to pay my full pension.

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