Guardian Life reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(1,688 total reviews)
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Andrew McMahon

71% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Guardian Life has an employee rating of 3.6 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
3.0
Jan 26, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This is one of the few companies I know of that still has a pension program, so that's fairly significant. They've also started emphasizing employee health recently- mostly because the company tends to be both older and less healthy than average- so it will hopefully result in some decent perks. The time off policy is fairly generous at 14 vacation days per year to start, and I think you start getting more time at 5 years of service.

Cons

There seems to be a culture of "fire drills"- many requests come in from senior management and everything needs to be dropped to take care of this as soon as humanly possible. This, of course, tends to result in both mistakes on the fire drill and sometimes missed deadlines for the day-to-day work, which reflects poorly. It can be frustrating to work in such a reactive (rather than proactive) environment.

3.0
Jan 19, 2015

Insurance Carrier

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Long standing reputation for quality in most markets, great products, medium sized carrier, great pay/benefits.

Cons

Like most carriers trying to transition and adapt to changes in the industry creating internal growing pains and frustration at field level. Computer systems/applications excessive and inefficient but supposedly in the process of overhaul.

2.0
Jan 13, 2015

HR department..

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are basically pretty good.

Cons

The leadership in HR department is horrible Managers do not talk to their staff and their is no sharing of information.....everything is a secret, even if it directly impacts your job!! Poor employee morale.

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