USAA reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(7,695 total reviews)
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Juan C. Andrade

40% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

USAA has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 7,695 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
1.0
Feb 8, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits and onsite facilities are great.

Cons

Was told this is a sales positions, no incentive for sales and lousy pay. If hired you go through one week of new employee orientation. Second week you are put through Insurance School (300+ pages condensed into 30 over one week). The third week you spend in a 2 week class on how to answer the phone. You are then scheduled by the licensing department to take your state exam to become licensed. If you don't pass on the third time you are fired. During my training class 6 people jumped ship because of test. All of my family is former military and does not remember USAA doing business their current way. It's all about sales with no compensation and constant monitoring of everything. I work at a bank and make double what I did at USAA for the same job with less stress. Was told I would be working in the Tampa Campus and then after the 4th week was told we were going to the Sabel Park Office, trip time from Tampa Campus, 1 hour and 35 minutes one way! Stress of job and constant fear of upper management not worth the time or pay. USAA's way of doing business if very odd and it comes across to the members. Nothing is consistent with the call center. THINK LONG AND HARD BEFORE ACCEPTING POSITION. They will hire anybody who they think will be whipped and not speak.

2.0
Jan 19, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fair salary, benefits, tuition reimbursement. Fair amount of paid vacation time (but good luck trying to use it). Child care on site (higher than usual tuition). Fitness center onsite w/ low cost/fees. Variety of on campus dining (mediocre food and high prices). Bottomline, it's a good place to gain experience if you're beginning a career or obtaining licenses or designations b/c there's not the pressure of comission - but after several years it "gets old". Promises of promotions and raises are always right around the corner, but seemingly never realized.

Cons

Call Center to the MAX. Call Center environment is difficult to foster investment relationships/business due to extreme time restrictions on returning phone calls from clients/members and following up w/ clients/members to close business. Additionally, once initial training is completed there is NO ONGOING Advisor development. It's promised but not delivered b/c management is constantly in meetings with EACH OTHER. Also, b/c of the Call Center stats legnthly (necessary) documentation required by FINRA was not generally support - just the minimum.

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