USAA Data Engineer II reviews

Not much growth opportunity, siloed role so I didn't get to learn much, tech moves slowly here because of all of the security and compliance. The hierarchical structure prevents lower level employees from making meaningful contributions. There is a bottleneck at the architect level that prevents fully capable individual contributors from building meaningful applications. I have a PhD in my field, but because I didn't know the right people I never got to prove my worth. I've done more in 2 months at my new company compared to four years at USAA. This company is significantly behind on tech, and it will continue to be that way with how conservative it is.

Joined pre-covid. We worked on site. All meetings were in zoom because size of company and even just the size of the HQ. We were literally running out of office space and about to start desk swaps and remote work. Then COVID hit. CEO and board were suddenly all pro remote work (of course - have to keep the business running!). Everyone busted their behind and productivity even went up during this time. COVID ends. Suddenly they are implementing an RTO 4x days a week policy if you live within a 60 mile radius of an office building bc "culture". This was clearly bull and they just wanted people to quit to avoid paying severance to all the people they overhired and signed a contract with to pay severance. My opinion, not fact - but hard to dispute. Their core values are supposedly "Honor/Integrity" etc. Top management clearly has none and a bunch of slimy pretenders. They just secretly moved HQ out of San Antonio as well for what I assume are tax purposes. Company definitely won't be around for another 100 years. Steer clear if you have other options.