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      Pacific Life

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      Pacific Life reviews

      3.5

      64% would recommend to a friend

      (684 total reviews)
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      Darryl Button

      68% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Senior management

      Pacific Life has an employee rating of 3.5 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
      4.0
      May 6, 2016

      Great company with established market presence.

      Devops engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Fortune 500 company with unbeatable compensation packages and perks. Beautiful office spaces in great locations. Company sponsored pension is very hard to find anywhere else.

      Cons

      IT architecture is behind the times, but still does a great job of supporting the various lines of business. Sometimes feels like solving today's problems with yesterdays technology and architecture.

      5.0
      Apr 25, 2016

      Salary

      Applications developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      good benefits and good work/life balance

      Cons

      Very low salary increase comparing to whole industry in IT which are from 4% to 9% average cross all IT positions and will follow behind if this continues

      4.0
      Apr 16, 2016

      Strong stable company

      Director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Strong, stable company. Decent pay and benefits. Cafeteria and locker room with showers on site at Newport Beach location. Proximity to Fashion Island. Very strong Good Guys program to participate in charitable events. Many employees have worked here forever. This can be both good and bad.

      Cons

      Annual pay increases are very small, even for higher rated employees. Very "corporate" with the whole annual review process. Other posters have mentioned the antiquated technology that we have available and this is very true. It takes forever to get any new technology implemented and by the time you get it, it's already outdated. The culture is very corporate - sometimes it feels like you are working for the government because of all the approval levels, checks and balances, security measures, etc and the pace that these things move at. Also, some areas have employees that have been here forever, are stuck in their ways, won't think outside the box, just want to follow the rules, and just make things much more difficult and/or time consuming to accomplish than they need to be.

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