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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8K reviews
2.0
Jan 22, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The most trustworthy members in the world. USAA's prior relationship with its members is not measurable.

Cons

Abusing the trust of the members. Members get bounced around the company because management has determined that no matter what the reason for the call the member needs to be sent to a financial advisor for a "review" and "interview". Employees and contractors (!) have learned how to game the system in order to be rewarded for referring a member to a financial advisor. As a licensed financial professional be prepared to be the recipient of all kinds of calls. Member can't pay their bills, member doesn't like their money market rate, member is upset their property and casualty rates went up? Get them to a financial advisor! You'll have a "solution" for them and the transferring employee gets an attaboy by getting them to an advisor. By the way your measurements include products per hour so good luck with the bankruptcy and loan declined calls. The biggest part of your advisor measurement is "call quality" or manager like/dislike of you. You'll find out early in your advisor job who the "fast trackers" are; generally under the age of their manager and have told their manager they want to be a manager also. Voila, a manager selectee. Want to advance currently at USAA? Tell your manager the solution to every situation is a life insurance product.

2.0
Apr 26, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, work schedule is flexible. USAA members are great. Front-line employees are, as most people discover on the phone, supremely nice and generous people.

Cons

Incompetent, incommunicative silos of business. Management is mostly Texan, mostly untrained in management, and mostly promoted for political reasons. Management realizes that financial employees have two options: be paid on salary or go to a commission-based world outside, and this is used to manipulate the employees. Systems have degenerated to where many frontline employees have to redocument the same information in multiple places. CEO is an ineffective, weak leader in comparison his predecessor.

1.0
Nov 16, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people I work with.

Cons

Increased sales pressure without compensation. They are pretty much making it impossible to get the highest end of year rating which is an “EE” which would allow for a bigger bonus and better end of year raise and they are pushing us to give more partially meets “PM” which allows them to pay a lower bonus and lower raises. All this after coming off our strongest sales year yet. They continue to increase manager work load and spans to avoid hiring more managers. They want you to run it like your own agency but then micro manage everything. Everyone is eating the company low on internal surveys so now we all have to go through a positivity training called Orange Frog instead of them addressing employee concerns. Nobody feels appreciated or valued… especially managers. I could go on and on but just be aware this is not the same company it was 5 years ago. It is not employee focused.

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