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Transamerica

Part of Aegon

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Never, ever work here - Anonymous employee Transamerica Employee Review

1.0
Sep 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A good place if you're in to "skating by" and collecting a paycheck without ever really advancing - great work/life balance, low stress environment.

Cons

Absolutely no culture of cultivating talent. Every few years there are layoffs, yet they will hire interns or outsource to India as though their people are interchangeable components. Senior management seems oblivious to the amount of institutional knowledge they have pushed out the door, and as people too mediocre to go elsewhere accumulate, all they see is less and less performance for the same dollar - which in turn leads to more layoffs and reorgs, and so on. There is literally no future or advancement here - if you get an offer at a particular level, ask yourself if you'd be comfortable being at that same level in 5 years, and if not don't bother. Actually, don't bother regardless - odds are good you won't make it longer than 5 years anyway.

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Pros

great account management team. Great bosses. pension. decent benefits. managers allow flexibility.

Cons

the account managers are the only ones held accountable. other departments don't answer emails for weeks, don't do their jobs and no one in upper management cares. directly effects account managers so you get yelled at by clients and brokers a lot. don't get paid enough to do the job of the account manager and take on the other departments work.

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