TIAA reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(4,022 total reviews)

Thasunda Brown Duckett

54% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

TIAA has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,022 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The TIAA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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4K reviews
3.0
Jul 15, 2014

Great benefits, but not much opportunity for advancement

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Generous benefits -Diverse, friendly, supportive staff

Cons

-No clear career paths or role definitions. -Not a lot of opportunity for promotion. The company needs to realize that people do not want to make lateral moves for the entirety of their career. At some point, people need to know that as their skills and knowledge increase and they grow and master new work/tasks/projects, they will be rewarded with a promotion. -If you do get an elusive promotion, often times it comes with little to no salary increase, which is in stark contrast to prior years when a promotion typically came with a 10% increase. Results in much more responsibility with no financial reward and sometimes no title change. -Technology is a constant struggle - our site for clients doesn't support versions higher than IE9. Internally we are constantly jumping between Firefox, IE6 and a shell version of IE8. -Not agile. Very slow to innovate. Always playing catch up to the competition in terms of technology and services. -Too many ineffective and dare I say unethical managers/directors, but because they manage up well, they suffer no consequences for the way they treat their employees. -In my area, all new upper management are cronies brought in from Fidelity. While it's great to have new blood and new points of view, it's disheartening that there aren't really opportunities for advancement to that level from within. -No accountability.

3.0
Jul 13, 2014

Ok

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits good healthcare good location

Cons

Hard to work your way up

2.0
Jul 7, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

They have a great retirement package and benefits

Cons

The management I have had to deal with were less that stellar. Do not work in Operations! Not good leadership, no work-life balance and they do not practice the company values.

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