USAA reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(7,677 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 7,677 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
Dec 12, 2017

DONT DO IT!

Recommend
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Pros

Get to work with about 8/10 who hate the place as much as you do Ok hourly pay Deers on campus Nice cafeteria staff Bonuses

Cons

If you like to have any type of voice of your own stay away. Managers will take you and rip you to shreads, had one person throw in the towel today on our floor saying they have attempt suicide twice in the past year since working for this hell hole. Personally have been dignosed with anxiety and depression after only working with the company for going on 2 year/ have took 2 Ltd because of my depression that’s the only reason I’ve lasted. Managers are so condescending! Will push it on you to sale and transfer members if the screen tells you the need it they need it. Usaa will say they’re above all but yet coming from a bank who is a competitor/ corporate bank. Usaa shoved the exact same things down the members thoat now just as much a corporate bank. But the only thing is Usaa don’t give you commission for it. Once you got the sales part down You just get you manager to nit pick at something else other than your “transfers” / “opportunities” (sales). Such as the fact that if one day you got to really have to “GO” (to the bathroom, or have a call to take) and if you happen to take more than 7 mins to do so you have to go in and report UNSCHEDULED PTO!!!! Anytime it’s a occurrence coming back from brake 1 mins late is a “OCCURENCE” computer taking to long to load up or log onto phone system lags and you start taking late by 2 mins the times is a occurence. If you want to move up in a company don’t go to the Call center! People have been stuck on phone for 5+ years DONT DRINK THE KOOLAID THEY GIVE YOU WHEN BEING HIRED ABOUT YOU BEING ABLE TO MOVE ANYWHERE AT 1 year! Seems like a lot of job postings but in reality just there to take up space you really have to know someone or pull stings to get anywhere with this company. Also don’t plan on having a work/life balance even in protective leave you’ll get questioned

3.0
Nov 20, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Good company match on 401K (8%) Decent medical benefits Free fitness center on site (very small though) 50% off purchases of healthy choices in the cafe Above average bonuses for insurance industry

Cons

You will work here for over a year before you see a full bonus. The base pay is not competitive for all the regulatory items you have to deal with in the different states. There is no quota, BUT you are expected to soft sell products to almost every member based off recommendations from the proprietary software used by USAA. The training is not that good and will leave you unprepared to help some of the members. You will be told to look on a knowledge based system for most of your questions. Almost a cult-like culture, lots of propaganda weekly about it being the best company in insurance and banking! You will work here for years before you have a shot at both Sat/Sun off. You will probably never be able to get off the phones unless you have a very unique skill-set. They are growing VERY fast and the poor members are suffering with a "hit or miss" experience with reps when they call in and expect excellent customer service. They use third party vendors for IT like most large corporations these days and the IT help line is a joke. The hardware is very old and they have proprietary software that glitches constantly!

3.0
Oct 23, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

USAA seems to value their employees as an organization, the benefits are good, and they emphasize work life balance. Stuart Parker seems to have a vision in which the company should be going, but I really wonder if he’s really connected to the true pulse of the company.

Cons

Perhaps one of the most culturally insensitive company I’ve ever worked for. On their corporate intranet they tried to pass off an act of outright racism as a biased mistake. Furthermore there isn’t a day without the typical racist micro aggression, rather it’s coming from a manager implying that ever race receives free money for colleges except white students to co-workers suggesting that the side of town with a large minority population is dangerous. They even contracted with a marketing company that had a racist office party and the reaction by USAA was extremely delayed.

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