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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2.0
Dec 13, 2022

Political poison

Recommend
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Pros

Remote work that will now be hybrid

Cons

Toxic work culture full of gossip and who’s who. No accountability, senior leadership purposely don’t attend scheduled calls, offline conversations that cause adverse reactions happen all the team. Great divide at the senior leadership level that trickles down to program level.

1.0
Sep 23, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Guardian has a relaxed culture with co-workers who are nice and knowledgeable - Unlimited PTO which is encouraged to be used

Cons

- Guardian has a slow promotion process (3-5 years) and provides minimal annual increases and small bonuses. My skills quickly out paced my salary and due to no promotional opportunities it felt like I was being forced to leave. When I brought up promotions with my manager there was no direction and it seemed like my manager had to be promoted first before I could be promoted. - Guardian has a top down culture, not many people push back against their managers at all levels. This can be good, but due to Guardian's high turnover of VPs, business goals were always changing and projects that got started often fizzled out, half complete. - Low exposure and extreme micromanagement depending on manager. At Guardian, your manager holds absolute power over your promotions, if your manager doesn't seem supportive I would suggest leaving sooner rather than later. - Guardian executives/managers never acknowledged the impact of inflation on employee's salaries and provided extremely low merit increases

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