USAA reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(7,679 total reviews)
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Juan C. Andrade

43% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

USAA has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 7,679 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The USAA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Insurance industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Feb 23, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The pay was acceptable, but that's it.

Cons

This job is by far one of the worst I have ever worked. Do not let them fool you, every single role is a call center phone jockey role! You will be tied to a computer with a headset. Everything you do, everything you say, everything you type is recorded and heavily scrutinized. Every phone call is graded on a giant rubric of "how good are you at being a robot emulating empathy?" They do not want genuine human interactions. You will get tons of calls and work that is not your own, and then be told to work OT to work your own stuff and thank them for it. You will get a different answer from every manager on every scenario, and your work will repeatedly get rejected despite getting answers beforehand. Every day is more broken promises from leadership, another list of things you did "wrong", and constantly moving targets so you cannot succeed. It's a revolving door at USAA, and lately there are far more going out than in.

2.0
Feb 9, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

I got paid really well

Cons

Impossible to know if you are meeting your sales goals until the month is over. No communication on important changes until you get “caught” by your manager doing something wrong. Constant recording of calls creates so much stress as one word wrong can get you in trouble. The “growth mindset” makes no sense as you are always required to do more and more sales. For a company who hires veterans they are not trauma informed and made my PTSD unbearable. Big brother always spying on you made me literally sick. You are on teams but there is zero team building. Not enough time after calls to finish documentation, to read company emails, to reset after a challenging call, and to just take a minute to breathe. Write ups of 10 plus year employees for not meeting 14 different metrics, that were never explained until the write up 9 months later, because I didn’t meet goals from earlier in the year that were not even in existence during those previous months.

1.0
Sep 2, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits (although they were declining slightly prior to my resignation) Good amount of PTO

Cons

Very difficult to get a job off the phones. The claims system sets adjusters and customers up for very stressful experiences. It is an inbound call center where calls are back to back with no time in between all day except for maybe 5 minutes between from 8-8:30am. Then we have our own claims to work but we can’t work them or make outbound calls until there is time between inbound calls but there is rarely any time. As a result, many customers never get to talk to their assigned adjuster which makes them angry for talking to a different person every time they call. A lot of blackout days to use your PTO making it almost impossible to take days off for anything less than 6 months out. You have to use unplanned PTO which looks bad and you can get written up for too many unplanned days

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