USAA reviews

3.3

47% would recommend to a friend

(7,663 total reviews)
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Juan C. Andrade

44% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

USAA has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 7,663 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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3.0
Oct 10, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits Decent pay 30+ PTO days Work from home Very nice office with many amenities

Cons

Terrible processes -High expectations for each claim with no time to do it. -Severely understaffed -Impossible to meet goals unless you do 6-8 hours OT, which is not always allowed. -Extremely high demand for work load as their understaffed and undertrained, but your punished for not meeting goals even though it’s out of your control. -Impossible to handle claims volume The claims department is failing due to an insane counterproductive method of handling claims. People are quitting en mass. You are expected to handle 40-80 claims at a time (way above capability) - but you have to spend 24 /40 hours a week answering the phone for members to assist other adjusters on their claim. Those adjusters cannot proficiently handle their own claims because THEIR ALSO answering phone calls for other adjusters. It’s a completely insane counterproductive process, and there’s a VERY easy fix.

1.0
Aug 29, 2021

toxic

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I get to work from home.

Cons

Everything. Literally Everything. - very toxic environment - back to back to back phone calls - unrealistic metrics - not able to use PTO even thought it is given - you are micromanaged to the absolute max - no work life balance - I fill with anxiety every Sunday because I dread Monday. - toxic employees who are not in a claims position, we call them “non member contact” - managers do not care what you have going on - I cry before I log in almost every morning, yes I know I can leave. Which is why I am leaving this review looking for a job. - yes they pay for school, BUT you will be so stressed out when you get off work you will not wanna do school. - bonus has been cut over and over - unable to work my own claims I am assigned - abusive members & other callers on the phone ALL the time - this is a very terribly position to have in USAA. If you apply, I would recommend only staying for a few months max to save your health. - USAA offers good benefits. Use to be awesome and over the last few years this place has declined so much. - you ever have a claim with USAA? Review all the feedback you see here and you will see why your claim was terrible.

3.0
May 23, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Benefit Package Work At Home (thank you COVID) Loyal Customers Are (usually) A Pleasure To Work With

Cons

Upper management doesn't listen. Knee-jerk reactions (orders to stop adjusting and answer random claim calls if more than 10 or 20 people (out of millions of customers) are on hold) cause a massive backlog in ACTUALLY moving claims forward. Out of a 40 hour week, I average receiving 30 to 60 new claims (this is not counting during storm season), while handling 50ish existing claims, and I only have 3 hours a day, 4 days a week, that I'm allowed to actually work on my assigned claims. During the other 28 hours, we're required to answer random incoming status calls for everyone else's claims and we're expected squeeze trying to work on our own claims in-between taking these calls. Adjusters on the floor have been complaining for years that this approach is not working. When we can't keep up, it creates exponentially more work as people call and email more often to figure out why their claim isn't being settled in a timely manner. If you take pride in doing your job well, you're going to be incredibly frustrated and eventually burnt out.

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