Company details

London, UK

HEADCOUNT

10000+

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Finance

WEBSITE

https://www.legalandgeneral.com

About the company

Legal & General is a UK financial services group spanning asset management, retirement solutions, and retail insurance and pensions. Legal & General manages and invests customer and client money across public and private markets, and Legal & General also operates large-scale pensions and protection businesses in the UK and the US. Legal & General positions the group as a long-term investor with a focus on responsible investing and societal outcomes alongside returns. Legal & General was founded in 1836 and is headquartered in the City of London.

Locations and presence

Legal & General’s main UK hubs for early-career programmes are London, Cardiff, and Hove, with additional UK offices including Solihull, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, plus Dublin and a US office in Stamford, Connecticut. Legal & General describes a hybrid model as the default balance, and some roles call out an office-based training period before moving to hybrid working.

Palpable Score

75.7

/ 100

Legal & General is a strong early-career employer for people who want structured routes like grad schemes, internships, and apprenticeships with real training and professional qualifications. Legal & General is also more transparent than many large financial services employers about the steps in the recruitment process, though pay ranges are still inconsistent on graduate roles. Early-career outcomes look promising through rotation design and completion-linked progression, but cohort-level conversion and promotion metrics are not published.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

16.7

/ 20

The company runs a Future Talent pipeline that covers graduate schemes, summer internships, and apprenticeships with predictable annual opening windows.

Legal & General offers graduate disciplines across areas like actuarial, accounting, investments, risk and compliance, technology, HR, and marketing, giving multiple entry doors beyond one track.

The company concentrates most early-career opportunities in a few hubs (notably London, Cardiff, and Hove), so access is broad by function but not evenly distributed by location.

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Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.7

/ 20

The company publishes a clear, staged recruitment flow for Future Talent (online application, online assessments, coaching call, then an assessment centre with set components).

Legal & General points candidates to an assessment “preparation zone” and uses a coaching call to explain what to expect at the assessment centre, which reduces guesswork for first-time applicants.

The company recruits on a rolling basis and does not present firm application deadlines for these schemes, which can make timing feel less predictable for candidates managing multiple processes.

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Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

16.3

/ 20

The company frames graduate programmes as 2–4 years with professional qualifications and a Future Talent induction plus programme events designed for skill-building and networking.

Legal & General states that graduates get mentors, buddies, and sponsors alongside a Future Talent network, which is stronger than a basic “manager-only” support model.

The company’s apprenticeship programmes include structured study time (for example, a monthly study day on some programmes) and fully funded qualifications, but onboarding detail for non-program entry-level roles is less clearly standardised in public materials.

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Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

13.7

/ 20

The company posts explicit salaries on several apprenticeship roles (for example, £22,000 per annum for some Hove apprenticeships and a £22,050 starting salary for a Cardiff customer service apprenticeship).

Legal & General links early-career roles to funded qualifications and paid study time, which is a meaningful part of “total pay” for apprentices and reduces financial risk while learning.

The company often describes graduate programme pay as “competitive” without publishing a clear range, so transparency is uneven between apprenticeships and graduate roles.

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Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

14.3

/ 20

The company ties completion to progression in at least one apprenticeship pathway, stating that successful completion leads to a promotion and pay rise.

Legal & General publishes rotation-based graduate programme stories that describe moving through multiple teams, which supports a realistic pathway to finding a fit and building breadth early on.

The company has broadly positive employee and intern sentiment on major review platforms, but Legal & General does not publish programme conversion rates, early-tenure retention, or time-to-promotion benchmarks for early-career cohorts.

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