Pacific Life reviews

3.4

61% would recommend to a friend

(684 total reviews)
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Darryl Button

65% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

Pacific Life has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 684 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pacific Life employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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684 reviews
1.0
Sep 2, 2014

Management needs to be reviewed - RSD

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits Friends for life have been made

Cons

HR needs to take a better look at what is going on ... when a business unit has had the majority of their FTEs leave (75% of whom were either women or employed for 5 plus years), something is drastically wrong. Middle management leave a lot to be desired. Each division has their own IT department - Corp & Life appear to have their act together, however RSD does not. RSD has been allowed to create mini empires among managers & directors who have no business in those positions because they lack training, people skills, knowledge and experience. When you have inexperienced managers pushing low level employees ahead of senior employees, who have put in the time and effort to move up. Only to be told, that "I don't care how long you have been here, I don't promote people unless I want to!" shows obvious discrimination and favoritism. And everyone that has been hired within the last 2.5 years are all the same type of people - inexperienced. But the manager wants you to give away your knowledge and skill set in order to train them to do the work at hand. Middle and upper management are cognizant of what is occurring and "trust that the decisions their managers and directors make are the right ones". PL has a culture issue within RSD that needs to be addressed and until that is done, they will always have a high turnover rate.

3.0
Dec 27, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Fantastic organization to work and grow in. Welcoming atmosphere and very flexible. Many continuous learning opportunities with endless interaction across various departments. I knew numerous employees who worked there until retirement. A market crash or really bad year meant they might layoff 100-150 people and a multitude would even get hired back into different divisions when conditions changed. I knew individuals who had 20+ year careers and changed roles several times - even divisions.

Cons

Operating more like a generic insurance and funds company the last 5 years. Priority one is cutting costs/people and overreaching decisions driven by trendy outside consultants. Re-hire opportunities do not exist as those roles occupied by outstanding performers and compensation are quickly filled with new less expensive hires. Someone must be channeling Jack Welch's spirit in the board room.

1.0
Jan 24, 2019

Bad Management

Recommend
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Pros

The Bonus was usually pretty good.

Cons

The bad management and favoritism makes it bad for the talent.

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