Principal Financial Group reviews

The tech is HORRID. You'd like to think a global company would be more "with it" as far as technology goes. Nope. Not Principal. The tech is a hamster in a wheel held together with super glue and duct tape. And that hamster is TIRED. The most frustrating thing about my job is not being able to do it well or efficiently because our leadership refuses to do better with tech or to hire more people. The workload keeps growing but the resources to support the growth are absolutely not there.

MICRO-MANAGEMENT be ready for your leader needing to read and critique every email you write. The current management is: If you were not capable of performing your job, but were part of the selected social order then you were considered management material and are now part of management. Principal states that they want new ideas, this is unequivocally false, the only ideas that are to be entertained are the social order's ideas. The technology at principal is laughable at best, backwards hardly describes it. The new technology is all about having more social hour meetings. It now enables the do nothings to do nothing from home well perhaps make it easier to micro-manage the staff. Analysis Paralysis - the best way to cope with this is to create an analysis that supports the existing status-quo or the preconceived notions of management. If something is incorrect or wrong never ever bring any attention to it, if it runs counter to any existing practice. Outsourcing is the future of Principal, if you work here or are thinking about working here understand and embrace that fact. The management team is a self-serving social group, they will talk about you behind your back, remember that when they talk about others to you. Management will not be truthful with you, yet demonstrate a holier than though attitude, remember they are always correct and The Principal Corporation is always correct.