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Transamerica

Part of Aegon

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Da Good, da bad, and da fugly - Anonymous employee Transamerica Employee Review

2.0
Jun 11, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great ability to pursue opportunities horizontally and semi-vertical (marginal). Openness to ideas and innovation at the departmental and business unit (for some). Many employees are very friendly and all around good people, as well as willing to help and collaborate on both a formal and informal basis. Customer service and essential but less technical positions have exceptional training, not sure about mentoring.

Cons

Management seems to generally be more concerned with politics and accomplishing personal agendas than holistic and evidence based decision making. Departments and business units are silo'd and work independently irregardless of the fact that synergies and collaboration could be exponentially beneficial to productivity; creation of EBS should have improved this, may still occur in future. Training and mentoring for new hires and people wanting to plan/advance their career is almost non-existent for severely technical positions. Innovative ideas that span the breadth of the company and could save enormous dollars are almost completely ignored due to the priority given to maintaining the status quo and empowering managerial stances/views as they pursue their own personal agendas; want to be innovative stick to your team/unit/department.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 5, 2026
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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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