USAA reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(7,672 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 7,672 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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1.0
Jul 7, 2019

Downward Spiral

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Pros

N/A - There are no real benefits here unless you want to live in San Antonio.

Cons

USAA paints a pretty picture but is no different from any competitors. USAA historical under pays and tries to sell the "bonus" as making a position competitive. The reality is the bonus continues to go down each year with no real improvement to base pay. The culture at USAA is largely favorite based. The people who are clueless or generally not skilled will still get ahead if they play up to a manager. The overall skill in my area was quite sad for what the project was actually doing. This is likely one of the factors behind such poor member experiences in USAA products. Open thinking and attempts to give improvements are shutdown more often than not. The simple fact of USAA's compliance issues are a telling tale of how the real state of USAA is.

1.0
Jun 17, 2019

Pure Chaos

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Pros

-8% Retirement match -Can't really think of anything else to be perfectly honest

Cons

-No opportunity to advance beyond call center role, no matter how great you are at your job. -No support or opportunity for developing as a professional. -Mediocre, at best, compensation. -Every 2 weeks there is some new earth-shattering, impossible change you are expected to be stressed out of your mind about. And then it goes away to make way for the new sky-is-falling change. -No thinking, reasoning or common sense -Unrealistic expectations. For at least the last few to several months I worked there no one got promoted, because no one could understand the new "beyond the numbers" standard, let alone meet them. -Barely a scant of recognition if you perform well; but, oh man, if you fail in just one aspect of your job they will hammer you, and probably put you on a plan for 3 months with no monthly bonus. I've known quite a few people who would be top 5% in all catagories performers for the month who were still essentially treated like dirt. One even had their picture taken to go on some kind of brochure promoting the company. Even now they are trying to fire them, even though they are an amazing performer and make the company lots of money. Just beyond comprehension. It really doesn't matter how long you work there or how well you do, they will gladly fire you if given the chance. -Very cult-like. They always talk about how scary it is "out there in the real world" and how lucky you are to work at USAA. -To compensate for "not doing layoffs", they just come up with some other reason to get rid of people

1.0
Apr 7, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance sometimes. Flexible like working from home.

Cons

The culture has drastically declined. It has moved away from being a company based on shared military values, to a widely progressive left political machine. The CEO shoves down intersectional and identity politics to employees regularly. USAA has turned from getting the best talent and developing within at the executive leadership levels, they decided to bring in so many former executives from Wells Fargo and American Express. You would think they want to move in a better direction after being fined by the CFBP and issued a consent order by the OCC. Bottom line this company needs to return back to its old glory, or else it risk turning into another Wells Fargo and the membership will keep flocking to Navy Federal. The CEO needs to go...!

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