Poorly run company. - Anonymous employee TIAA Employee Review

2.0
Aug 21, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation and benefits are typically very good: 401k match and pension contributions are fully vested at 3 years. Corporate campus aesthetic very nice. Most front-line managers tend to be very nice, reasonable people.

Cons

This is where it gets interesting. This is THE worst run company, at a high level, that I have ever encountered. The return-to-office move in 2019 was a complete disaster that accomplished nothing but lowered productivity, lowered morale and increased failure. This was a heavy-handed, incompetent move that did not do ANYONE any good. Whoever pushed that disaster should be fired on the spot. Ironically, the Covid-19 pandemic trashed that initiative, and I understand that productivity has now improved. Many departments within the company, HR in particular, are highly passive aggressive. There has been no improvement in this area despite an avalanche of complaints over the years.

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