Principal Financial Group reviews

Started promised 40+ hours a week was lucky to get 20. Training was a disaster. Everyone does something diffent from training manuals provided. Uper management has no clue. We were gave projects with a different trainer for each one. Sometime trained and then retrained after half project was finished.

Principal has a serous lack of diversity, not just in terms of demographics, but in terms of thinking and style. Different perspectives are not supported here and will be squelched by those who will use "company culture" to their defense and detriment ( why you will often here "that's the way we've always done it"). Principal employees know that the company heavily favors external talent compared to internal talent which is why you see employees leave for a competitor for a year or two just to come back (obtain larger salary jumps compared to had they stayed at principal). Principal often does not consider how macro policies reinforce their workforce.