USAA reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(7,682 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 7,682 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
Oct 17, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

401k, nice furniture, building and cafeteria, work with nice , educated employees and wonderful customers

Cons

poor management management cannot be trusted, inaccurate performance appraisals, pay for performance is not alive at USAA, when you meet or exceed goals the information is not shared with you until the end of the year review and then it may be left out of your review and not even acknowledged and certainly not with pay raises, no room for advancement, only a select few or friends of management, you are monitored for how long you are on restroom breaks and have to carry a stop watch with you for lunch and breaks so you do not go over a minute., tenured employees are harrassed and feel pressured to leave the company, allowing them to hire less experienced employees to be hired, therefore those experienced handle complaint and errors that have to be corrected on their behalf, they don't retain the experienced employees. This leads to members who are not happy with the service and cancel all of their policies. Once you are on the floor and handling phone calls without any breaks between calls, you do not feel valued and are just a number. Managers are greedy and don't care about the feelings or well being of the employees, and they also lie to their employees. They also will hide to prevent from taking over a phone call or complaint which employees are required to do when the member wants to leave the company.

2.0
Sep 28, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Coworkers Benefits Large company with room to advance your career

Cons

Large company where the executives make very large salaries and bonuses while operational employees are "redlined" and paid below market value. They increase profit by getting the same amount of employees to do more and more work. Then operational managers nitpick at review time, never taking into consideration other factors that may have played a role . They micro manage to the degree that it just boils down to whether or not your manager likes you. One manager could take the same employee and give an exceeds expectations review while another could take the very same employee and give a failed to meet expectations review just based on what factors they decide to highlight. It simply is a matter of how they want to look at it. An employee can produce great results with a manageable workload but as the workload increases one would assume that quality may decrease. But at USAA they don't care about that. Its as if everything they analyze happens in a vacuum. Unless of course you brown nose, then you can do no wrong...even if you are horrible at your job and all your coworkers know it.

1.0
May 19, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Generally a good benefit package. Certainly better than most. Certainly a lot of different departments if you would like to move around and/or educate yourself in the way of a different career area.

Cons

Downright dishonesty. Not fudging the truth, not bending. If it serves some "greater" purpose, mgmt will flat out lie in the face of things difficult to prove otherwise. At times, even when it is easier to just be honest and do the right thing, politics and factors no related to job performance will be guiding factors when deciding courses of business.

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