USAA reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(7,680 total reviews)
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Juan C. Andrade

41% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

USAA has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 7,680 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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3.0
Nov 26, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Stability-- Not too much chance of s/w devs getting laid off en masse like is currently happening in the Big Tech cos. Benefits are good. Aetna is their health ins. co. and by and large they are fine. The HSA is the plan I'd recommend Good 401k match program but it takes like 3 yrs to fully vest in it and in the retirement plan. If you have time to still go to college, I hear the college reimb pgm is good.

Cons

Benefits aren't broad, but very cookie-cutter. Some are very narrow in appeal and depend on explicit approvals. Speaking as a s/w dev there for 3 yrs: I am in P&C Claims. It's total chaos here. The Modernization effort has been botched. It was all but outsourced completely to contractors who knew zilch abt our current systems. As for FTEs, they assign lit. whoever they can grab to do things regardless of their background or knowledge re the subject. Treating ppl like plug and play devices is not a winning strategy. We lack effective skills dev't programs but are assigned to use skills we don't possess and get little time to learn anything new. We are heavy with "senior" and "lead" engineers who've stopped writing code and are expected to do the actual mgt. of tasks while knowing little or nothing about the subject. Our "architects" are utterly useless. Ppl spend hours in mtgs. and produce endless emails and decisions take forever to get made. Deadlines don't slip; we blow past them at 90 mph! Our tech stack is ancient. We're trying to modernize into tech that is almost now deprecated. There are days, more than less, where I realize the only reason I don't leave is I am not too sure where I'd go where it's any better in most ways. But just b/c most alternatives also are bad doesn't mean life at USAA as a dev'r should be.

1.0
Nov 16, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay and benefits but not much else

Cons

This job will stress you out. Management DOES NOT care about employees. They hire you as work at home full time then bait and then end it saying it wasn’t promised long term. Managers are awful and micromanage to the extreme. The ones in charge of forecasting the phones do a terrible job so we are constantly being put in status that prevents us from calling out to work our new claims and then penalized for it. Just do not work it! Looking for other opportunities now. It’s a really terrible work place.

2.0
Jun 25, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Intentional consideration given to support military personnel and veteran 'customers' for near 100 years. Similar to active military environments employees are provided with social amenities to improve work-life balance. And salaries are consistent with other financial institutions across the US.

Cons

What the Pros don't say - the general employee sentiment is the company leadership has intentionally established and nurtured a two tier class employment culture over the past 100 years that drives workplace fatigue and other cultural norms for those considered in the "have-no voice class". The amenities are put in place to distract employees from solving for the broader company grievances as they help to shift the focus of conversation (similar to a parent - child discussion when the parent no longer wants ..or is equipped to resolve the child's inquiry to a suitable degree) and/or prevent problem resolutions from uniformly being achieved. And, similar to the military officer to non-commissioned officer pay, overall compensation is highly imbalanced between those making decisions vs those having no voice in the decision making process (and Executive Directors, AVPs, & VPs are not always included in the former class) as inequity was the intent from the company's inception. This is exemplified in the military's structure to this day. Beyond the stated cultural norms the Cons are as follows - The company ignores regulatory compliance's intentionally and this translates to high attrition or the shuffling of employees across the organization that perpetuates the continuous "we didn't know this was occurring" operating model. Executive leaders lack the business and leadership acumen to lead employees to achieve success and this translates to onboarding middle managers and low level managers that also lack the skills based knowledge and emotional intelligence to position employees to successfully meet business objectives. Finally, although extensive onboarding is provided to immerse employees in the association's mission to military personnel the organization as a whole has no employee training & development programs for either individual contributors or managers and because of this there is no such thing as succession planning, corporate culture development, DE&I, or cradle to grave consideration given to developing internal talent. This is a direct contributing factor for why so many managers cycle in and out of the company within 2 to 3 year timeframes that come from the financial services arena.

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