USAA reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(7,681 total reviews)
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41% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

USAA has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 7,681 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
Oct 14, 2015

Member Services II

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, beautiful campus, great teammates.

Cons

Call center horror. No breaks in between calls, and you sales more important than taking care of our military members. After 10 years could not take it. In the beginning it was great, servicing existing accounts but after 3 years ot was just sales sales sales even though I wasn't a sales rep. Loved the people and my managers but to save my sanity let them fire me after 10 long years.

1.0
Sep 25, 2015

great company. horrible job

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is decent. 38k for claims adjuster iii. Yearly bonus around 18%. Benefits are great.

Cons

Impossible work load. You are a glorified call center rep. You are required to take incoming calls non stop for 80% of the day and they expect you to somehow actually be an adjuster and investigate your hundreds of owned claims for the remaining 20% of the day. Impossible. Taking time off is frowned upon and not putting in overtime is frowned upon. Since you can only be an adjuster for 20% of the day they expect you to put in overtime to make up for that lost time. They have opened up membership increasing business ten fold and their business model is simply out of date and cannot handle the influx of business. Managers all come from a time when you could sit at your desk for 20 minutes and not get a call. Now, the maximum time between incoming calls is maybe 5 seconds. Literally. So management is a little out of touch with how much the business has changed. I was drinking the kool-aid in training, but my perspective completely changed when I was thrown to the wolves. The actual job is fine, it's just that they put 80 hours of work on you and epect you to keep pace in a 40 hour week. These cons out weigh the great benefits package. Also, everybody and their mother wants to get out of claims (the starting positions) so you can imagine how competitive it is to move anywhere else in the company. Half way through this year usaa had already eclipsed their overtime hours from the previous year. That's how out of control their current business model is.

2.0
Sep 22, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay and benefits. Beautiful campus.

Cons

I was a manager nearing retirement age. I was in the process of being written up by my director. My infraction was saying to a representative whose THIRD language was English that she had a "language barrier". .Keep in mind, I had tried to help her with her written and oral use of the language even though that was not a part of my job description.. Her calls were constantly being "escalated" to me because our members could not understand her. My unit NEVER missed their quotas and we even won a contest competing with over 10,000 reps company wide. I even found "language barrier" in one of their brochures. I was told I needed diversity training and that my job was in jeopardy. It upset me so much that I went into the hospital the next day with a heart condition before they could write me up. I took disability until retirement age and never went back. Besides the HR man not liking me, he never considered that the rep may have over-reacted when she went crying to him.

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