Guardian Life reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(1,686 total reviews)
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Andrew McMahon

72% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Guardian Life has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,686 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Guardian Life employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Mar 7, 2020

Constant layoffs

Recommend
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Pros

Good compensation Lots of great co-workers Technology is really moving forward here Good 401K match

Cons

Their idea of a reorganization is to hand everyone their severance papers and then create new jobs to which everyone has to apply. It is constant stress. Performance reviews are meaningless and strong performers will not be kept around in other positions if they whack your job.

2.0
Jun 22, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Provides flexibility, like work from home few days a week. My direct manager is an awesome manager ( really depends on the team and group you’re in)

Cons

Teams are very inefficient, poor communications, low accountability. Get very last minute projects from leadership and unreasonable deadlines. No matter what issues the project had, it was forced to implement just to meet the deadline and make leadership happy. Individual contributors doesn’t really have much say. No clear career paths or how to be promoted here. People here are in the same job for many years. PTO can be better. I got less PTO compared to my last job and you have to work 5 years before you get an extra PTO day. Company technology sucks sometimes when you have to work remotely. The VPN doesn’t connect and the IT helpdesk are not helpful in resolving this.

1.0
Jun 11, 2019

Don't even bother

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Pros

Nice office and a decent amount of PTO time

Cons

Very poor management, very poor pay when compared to industry as a whole.

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