TIAA reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(4,009 total reviews)

Thasunda Brown Duckett

55% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

TIAA has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,009 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
4.0
Jan 5, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

benefits - great vacation policy, starting with 23 paid days off per year for new hires, and increasing each year

Cons

corporate environment -- constant threats of lay offs -- also, people are evaluated using a 360 evaluation, meaning that a great number of collegues evaluate your performance, up to 15 and 20 people, starting with your administrative assistant; so, unless you make friends with many, many people around you, then you will not have a lot of good recommendations from many people, and bonuses are based on recommendations from many of your collegues. So, you must be collegiate and friendly to essentially earn more money and keep your job; it is no longer about what your boss(es) think of you, but what everyone else does too.

2.0
Jan 5, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are great! They will pay for school and the matching program is good.

Cons

The company has too many bureaucracy and too many playing favorites. Its hard to advance unless you know someone. The company does not treat employees like they use to and they give management poistions to their friends.

4.0
Jan 1, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Solid job security, senior management is very competent. The CEO used to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and appears very fair and genuinely concerned about employee advancement. Lower level management is less caring, but in general reaching out to employees of all levels is helpfull. Company is dedicated to advancing employee's careers

Cons

There are a lot of old timers that don't share the same philosophy as newer employees. Job responsibilities are not fully explained, but this at times, this leads to higher levels of responsibility among employees. More responsibility however does not always result in a higher salary

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