TIAA-CREF Reviews

Current Employee – been working at TIAA-CREF

Pros – The money is fairly good

Cons – The management usually sucks at their jobs

Advice to Senior Management – Get off your high horses

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TIAA-CREF

Pros – awesome benefits like time off and unparalleled retirement contributions

Cons – Some areas are great to work in, but others are not. Compared to other companies I've worked for, TIAA is good, but not the best.

Advice to Senior Management – Ask questions and listen. Don't assume you know what people are thinking and feeling.

Former Employee – worked at TIAA-CREF

Pros – My manager was personally interested in the success of his team.

Cons – The corporate culture is struggling to change and has an assembly line mentality. Longevity within the organization is the only thing given credibility in the workplace. New employees (less than 5 years) are largely ignored, and constantly told by all levels of management that they need to be around longer in order to "understand" how things work in the company.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TIAA-CREF

Pros – Great benefits, used to have a good pension.
Good middle management and nice co-workers.

Cons – Upper management aloof.
Too much politics and backstabbing, kingdom making.
Not much chance for a promotion unless you know somebody in the in.

Advice to Senior Management – Get some fresh air and become responsive to employees needs.

Current Employee – been working at TIAA-CREF

Pros – Technology, Teamwork, Telecommute, Transperency and Integrity

Cons – Unbalance brought in compensation, careerpath through Change in management very often

Advice to Senior Management – Think beyond 5 years of the stay that leadership has while doing job switch. People who stay in the organization longer needs proper consideration in role, responsibility and remuneration.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at TIAA-CREF

Pros – Benefits programs, retirement plan and facilities are awesome.

Cons – Upper management keeps changing therefore no project is ever followed through on making any continuity impossible.

Advice to Senior Management – Promote from within and create a management track for those that show the ability. Let them work in different business areas to gain a more complete view of the organizatiion.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TIAA-CREF

Pros – Good people with good skills at the worker level. Some of the senior leadership was good. Decent pay and benefits

Cons – Frequent and dramatic leadership/direction changes. The best leaders are quickly discovered and subsequently overwhelmed with work to the point where they cannot be successful

Advice to Senior Management – Pick an IT organizational strategy and see it through. Constant change is to be expected to some degree, but when it rises to a level that people are constantly in fear of their jobs it becomes a distraction that hampers performance. Recognize that you are overwhelming good leaders and either forcing them to leave or putting them in position where they cannot meet expectations.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TIAA-CREF

Pros – Good pay, good work life balance, reasonably strong supporting cast, major offices in both New York and Charlotte, good benefits

Cons – Slow moving, can be a bit of a lack of clarity around promotions and what it takes to get to the next level

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TIAA-CREF

Pros – A good training program, everyone there is very willing to help their coworkers. For the most part we have friendly participants.

Cons – Slow systems to work on. Taking PTO during holidays is a struggle. Some of the training is a bit overkill,

Advice to Senior Management – Please update our systems. The company wants us to reduce our average talk time when they give us agonizing slow programs to work on.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at TIAA-CREF

Pros – The environment is one in which it is very relaxed!

Cons – To relaxed and not focused at times.

Advice to Senior Management – Bring in managers that are focused and understand the business.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend