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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2.0
Jun 11, 2012

Exhausting

Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are nice, pay was good for entry-level

Cons

Heavily monitored and micromanaged call center. It doesn't matter if you're a claim adjuster, policy writer, bank employee, etc., you are expected to make sales and "deepen the relationship". Each day's schedule is made out for you, including when you take your breaks and lunch and how long you have. Every deviation from the planned schedule, even if going to the bathroom, is counted as "out of adherence". Falling out of a certain allowable range will result in a reprimand, and if continual and frequent will lead to corrective actions. You barely know the people you work in close proximity to because you are on the phone constantly, and once home for the night or on the weekends you may find yourself with little energy to do anything else other than dread the next work day. Benefits are nice only because management knows it's the only thing keeping employees there. Also, little opportunity for advancement from an entry-level, customer-facing position; most upper positions are filled with people who applied with prior experience at other companies. You are expected to take outside education courses while at home and not participating is frowned upon, with the result being your entire life become centered around your work. Nearly every employee I talked to was either actively looking for new work, planning on doing so, or stuck reluctantly at the company for financial or other reasons.

2.0
May 19, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Pay Ramps up fairly quickly nice onsite gyms decent benefits

Cons

Goals for reps seem to double every year reps state that we don't get commissions so we are honest what they don't tell you is we have numbers to meet and if we don't get you transferred you're likely to be let go calls are highly structured to optimized sales

1.0
Oct 6, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The best thing about USAA was the benefits. But what they make up for in benefits is taken from your pay. They have two or three gyms on site and wlil supplement one of your breaks to your lunch so you can have 1:15 minute long lunch to work out if you want to take advantage. The meal card/id - you can you your id as a credit card at the cafetieria and stores - don't get carried away thugh because it comes out of your next paycheck and it is possible to get back a $0 check if you spent more than you make.

Cons

You are micromanaged to an extreme so say goodbye to privacy. They watch your computer screens, they listen and record every one of your calls. You take everyone elses calls and when you speak to the insured on that first day you get your claim - make sure you go through everything because you will never see that claim again. What you make in benefits (and the yearly bonus) is taken from your pay. Try applying somewhere else to so you are not clouded by the bonus at USAA. I made 14k more starting at another insurance company when I left than at USAA; the difference in pay more than makes up for the benefits and bonus at the end of the day.

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