Pros
Very favorable and friendly to all females, lots of social women in leadership classes, women in the workplace classes, how women can best handle stress, financial advising for women. Nice buildings easy access to the skywalk system. Benefits appear to be nice but do your research Principal takes advantage of many loopholes to ensure you can't really have or use your benefits. In the end the end, the benefits are no better than any other insurance or financial firm in town. Frankly benefits at other major employers in town are better. You won't have to work very hard particularly in management because social hour is every hour if you are selected to be part of their Greek social letter. At the Principal the edge that will take you far is your unabashed flattery of management. Principal is an easy target for another organization to acquire.
Cons
MICRO-MANAGEMENT be ready for your leader needing to read and critique every email you write. The current management is: If you were not capable of performing your job, but were part of the selected social order then you were considered management material and are now part of management. Principal states that they want new ideas, this is unequivocally false, the only ideas that are to be entertained are the social order's ideas. The technology at principal is laughable at best, backwards hardly describes it. The new technology is all about having more social hour meetings. It now enables the do nothings to do nothing from home well perhaps make it easier to micro-manage the staff. Analysis Paralysis - the best way to cope with this is to create an analysis that supports the existing status-quo or the preconceived notions of management. If something is incorrect or wrong never ever bring any attention to it, if it runs counter to any existing practice. Outsourcing is the future of Principal, if you work here or are thinking about working here understand and embrace that fact. The management team is a self-serving social group, they will talk about you behind your back, remember that when they talk about others to you. Management will not be truthful with you, yet demonstrate a holier than though attitude, remember they are always correct and The Principal Corporation is always correct.
