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      Principal Financial Group

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      Principal Financial Group reviews

      3.8

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (2,591 total reviews)
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      Deanna Strable

      81% approve of CEO

      69% positive business outlook

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      Principal Financial Group has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,591 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
      4.0
      Jul 25, 2020

      Work at Principal is Stable Helpful and Engaging

      Analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company is stable and quite profitable at what it does. This is in the fintech business and is a non-banking financial firm. Therefore work is always there. Most people work on Enterprise Java, C# but we are moving towards Cloud solutions like AWS, Azure, GCP for certain needs. There is a multitude of requirements for which quality engineers are needed. Therefore diversification and specialization and growth within the company is possible. Hard work is rewarded with recognition. A good supportive environment to grow professionally.

      Cons

      Vendor based solutions are sometimes preferred over in house solutions. A lot of POCs are not brought to production because of that. Work can be repetitive and constricted if delivery work is not supplemented with idea generation and POC development. Security is such that a lot of POC development is preferred on laptops with freely accessible internet or personal devices compared to office network laptops or desktops. If stuck with a technology it is hard to diversify as people will regard you as the subject matter expert and will delegate those specific tasks to you, leaving less time to innovate.

      5.0
      Jul 24, 2020

      Asset Management Review

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great work environment - everyone is really helpful

      Cons

      Could do with more guidance from higher ups

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