Great company! But restrictive depending on your role... - Administrative Assistant TIAA Employee Review

4.0
Jan 23, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Incredible benefits/401k matching - Very flexible work life balance/hybrid schedule - Great company values as a whole - Awesome team members if you get lucky with some awesome ones!

Cons

- Limited growth opportunities if you dont work in client-facing role - Too much ambiguity in what is expected of you, depending on your role. - Executive leadership makes decisions not really considering how it affects a team as a whole - Training materials are all over the place, are outdates, or arent very clear on what is expected of you depending on your role

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Great opportunities for growth and supporting management

Cons

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2.0
Jul 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good starting salary and benefits package.

Cons

The longer you’re there, the more of an expectation that you work more for the same or less income. Producers find it hard to justify staying when leadership keeps moving the goal posts on how to increase income. No rhyme or reason as to how they decide “promotions.” One advisor might have one good year and get promoted over an advisor that produces year in and year out. They fail to share revenue because they’d have a hard time justifying the income level compared to outside advisors with a fraction of the book size. They claim and depend on brand recognition to justify a capped income but fail, or just won’t admit that is why they keep losing their top talent. Operations is a nightmare that I can’t even begin to describe. When I share the processes that have been in place for over a decade, colleagues in the industry shake their head and laugh. They can’t believe we earn and keep business. The saying while I was there was “the biggest threat we face is that TIAA clients start to explore their options outside of TIAA.”

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