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Principal Financial Group

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Principal Financial Group reviews

3.8

71% would recommend to a friend

(2,587 total reviews)
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81% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Principal Financial Group has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,587 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
2.0
Mar 24, 2016

Senior manager in marketing

Recommend
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Pros

Good salary and medical benefits

Cons

Patronage ridden with loyalists to Des Moines hdg. Not innovative. Even tried to sell expensive mutual funds to own employees. Will rip off their own clients. A dull workplace.

1.0
Feb 28, 2016

Good company but doesn't pay employees well

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Overall good company to work for. Offer good work life balance and good benefits. Provides good career advancement as well.

Cons

Don't expect to earn what you are worth they don't reward employees for hard work they only reward the senior executives and ignore the hard working everyday employees.

2.0
Nov 16, 2015

slow to adapt

Recommend
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Pros

well known, nice people. they started renovating the work place so it's a lot nicer now. They seem to be conservative so unlikely to go out of biz if another collapse happens.

Cons

slow to change, old school middle management without much vision. they spend millions on consultants instead of listening to some of their younger talent.

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