Is Transamerica a good company to work for?

Transamerica has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 2,231 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 2% over the last 12 months. 63% of employees would recommend working at Transamerica to a friend and 63% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Transamerica have been left by employees working as Intern , Actuarial Analyst and Sales Associate .

Does Transamerica pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Transamerica employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Transamerica. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Transamerica?

63% of Transamerica employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Transamerica 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Transamerica?

Customer Service Representative (75) , Insurance Agent (44) , Internal Wholesaler (28) , Manager (27) , Account Manager (23) , Insurance Sales Agent (22) , Business Analyst (21) , Financial Advisor (18) , Analyst (17) , Agent (16) , Director (15) , Retirement Plan Specialist (15) , Sales Representative (15) , Customer Service Representative (CSR) (14) , Actuarial Analyst (13)

What are the pros of working at Transamerica according to real employee reviews?

"Great people to work around and brings positivity and hope to those you work with." ((in 211 reviews)); "Good benefits and financially stable company" ((in 169 reviews)); "Work/life balance was good and looked after by management." ((in 75 reviews)); "The pay was good and the hours were nice" ((in 74 reviews)); "Work from home is available" ((in 58 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Transamerica according to real employee reviews?

"Management is poor and not very professional." ((in 111 reviews)); "No training resources, closed LA and Cincinnati offices with no one in Denver knowing how to do the job." ((in 52 reviews)); "Lots of layoffs over the last 5" ((in 47 reviews)); "Upper management is clueless and bad at communicating" ((in 34 reviews)); "Manager constantly talked bad about the organization and told us about another contractor getting fired before the contractor knew" ((in 29 reviews))

What are employees saying about Transamerica layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Transamerica layoffs and their outlook for job security at Transamerica in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Transamerica locations?

Cedar Rapids , Denver , Baltimore , Saint Petersburg , Los Angeles , Plano , New York , Harrison , Dallas , Little Rock , Atlanta , Norwood , Exton , Chicago , Tampa , Charlotte , San Jose , Boston , Saint Louis , Louisville , Saint Paul , Cincinnati , West Chester , Philadelphia , San Diego , Indianapolis , Columbus , Des Moines , Duluth , Madison

Transamerica reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(1,944 total reviews)

Will Fuller

75% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

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Transamerica has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,944 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Transamerica employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

Reviews by job title

2K reviews

2.0

Nov 22, 2014

Careful what you are getting into

Senior developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Decent salary and benefits, competitive to industry, can come and go as you need to, most managers let you do your job the way you want to

Cons

Be careful what department you are entering as there is a big push to offshore work, even at the management level, the old timers will tell you what a great company it was to work for, but the days of investing in own employees seems gone

1.0

Sep 15, 2014

RUN . . . in a word. RUN.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great longtime employees. Cafeteria. Gym. Good benefits. It's a paycheck until you find somewhere safe to work that encourages employees to advance within their skill set.

Cons

Constantly slashing department staff. Outsourcing to India. Moving jobs to other cites - shedding of tenured employees with good salaries. Then instead of promoting from within they hire sub-par managers from outside that don't have a clue about the insurance business. No seriously, they have a "rule" about not promoting within a department for a position that pays more than 10% of current income. Seriously. Great offices . . . except they are all empty and people forced into tiny cubes . . . . lots and lots of empty space. Pay scale is on the VERY low side for many positions. HR is only about hiring. Middle and lower managers are left to do as they please which means there is no consistency as to policies and procedures and nothing in place to address workplace bullying.

1.0

Aug 29, 2014

I've never worked with a worse group of people.

Customer satisfaction leader

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

I forged friendships that last to this day there. Most of those people were either smart enough to leave on their own accord, but some were victims of cliques and office politics and succumbed, as I eventually did, to essentially forced termination.

Cons

Office culture is horrific. Camaraderie is virtually non-existent. The appreciation of privacy and individualism is shunned upon from top-level, down. If you weren't willing to fit some type of "mold", and attach to an existing clique, none of which were appealing, you found yourself combatting the petty people being rewarded for such backward behavior.

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Careful what you are getting into

RUN . . . in a word. RUN.

I've never worked with a worse group of people.

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