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Principal Financial Group

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Principal Financial Group reviews

3.8

74% would recommend to a friend

(412 total reviews)
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Deanna Strable

81% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

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2.0
Mar 18, 2025

Its alright

Recommend
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Pros

- Good place to learn cross platform tech + skillsets, you can grow professionally - Friendly supportive engineers, can learn a lot from them - WLB is ok

Cons

- Below market pay - Endless meetings that hinder work time - Bureaucratic at times to get something done - A lot of tech debt - Job satisfaction is so-so, felt micro managed, team politics are blatant, unethical management was there - Feels like a revolving door

5.0
Mar 18, 2025

Office culture

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Manager and office culture is great. Lots of support outside of office. Starting salary, commission, and benefits for new advisors is competitive

Cons

No solid leads up to this point Insurance process is a little clunky but getting better

1.0
Mar 16, 2025

Poor Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent PTO, WFH, and flexibility

Cons

Poor management, no opportunity for growth, low salary

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Principal Financial Group Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. As a Principal employee, you set the tone for your career. While there's no "one size fits all" training solution, we offer a variety of opportunities for career growth and development. As a leading provider of retirement solutions and employee benefits, we offer our employees a competitive benefits package. One of our guiding principles of our global pay philosophy is to be market driven. This means that total pay is set and administered in alignment with the external labor markets in which we compete for talent. We use third-party market data to help ensure base salary and incentives are appropriately aligned. Your feedback is an important part of our growth as an employer.
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