Guardian Life reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,688 total reviews)
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Andrew McMahon

69% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Guardian Life has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,688 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
Feb 9, 2016

Agent

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Pros

The product line is good....the clients have a solid product. Benefits look great....if you ever get to enjoy them. Year one of the contract makes the income look great....there after....watch out! Benefits are good...but expensive....retirement is good... most hired will never see any part of their hard work placed on their behalf towards their retirement.

Cons

MGMT - are like used car salesman - turn and burn mentality Each agency runs independent and Home office is another entity. Therefore if there is bad agency management, or an issue...there is no system in place to support an employee. Some Mgmt are so old school and "good ol boys club" that they are disrespectful of the leadership and co workers. Its like they are in the 50's or 60's era. GA's encourage an FR to build their book of business, like it is their own. business...Then the GA's start their "hunt" to devour the agents ....and keep the agent's book of business.. Once you have worked for many years...you are "trapped" - can't afford to loose the book of business and start over, but can't stand to work there either.

3.0
Feb 3, 2016
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Pros

Decent pay, lots of vacation time, awesome dental, life and disability benefits, adoption assistance, management is easy to talk to, opportunities to move throughout the company

Cons

They have very odd business practices in regards to employee time off. You are given 14 vacation days and 2 floating holidays to start off with. Which is a lot. However, if you can't make it into work for some reason other than being sick (or all of your sick time is used up) you better make sure that you have vacation days available or you're getting written up. For instance, there was a horrible wind storm this winter that took out power, caused massive damage, and left some people unable to get to work. Because it was toward the end of the year many of these people had used up their vacation time, and regardless of it being a natural disaster they got written up. When written up you can't take unaccrued vacation for 6 months, can't be promoted, can't get raises, ranking drops to the bottom of your department so if there's a shift bid and you have an awesome shift you'll probably lose it. They also require overtime, but rarely is it paid correctly. It's also very difficult to keep track of since overtime is paid in areers, and you won't see it until next paycheck. When it's on your paycheck it just shows an amount, not how many overtime hours it's counting, so if you had a correction plus regular overtime on your check it is really difficult to determine if it was paid correctly.

3.0
Feb 2, 2016

Great People, Hard Work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people at Guardian are wonderful and down to earth. Benefits are great.

Cons

Unfortunately, those who work hard are given more work than they can bear to make up for the employees who don't pull their weight. Compensation follows long after additional responsibilities are given.

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