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Pros
"Company also has a wonderful "work/life balance" policy in place" (in 113 reviews)
"Work-Life Balance and great benefits" (in 144 reviews)
Cons
"no such thing as work/life balance in IT" (in 52 reviews)
"Senior management now cares more about growing the company than serving clients" (in 39 reviews)
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"Specialist"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at TIAA full-time (More than 10 years)
Pros
Solid benefits , decent salary, interesting work, likeable colleagues, transferable knowledge and skills
Cons
High stress, cyclical industry, complexity, and Regulatory/Compliance requirements
Advice to Management
Maintain good communication, build positive working relationships, acknowledge good work, set a good example
TIAA 2018-06-28 10:50 PDTHelpful (3)
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"Great overall company, but Everbank values mis-aligned"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at TIAA full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Cares about customers, cares about employees, good benefits, you really feel like CEO cares
Cons
Disconnect between CEO and leaders down the chain of command. Recent employee surveys show declining numbers for collaboration within teams. Many feel it's the bank acquisition and how difficult they are (and protecting their leader)
Advice to Management
The Executive team needs to care and show they care as much as the CEO does. Fix the disconnect with misaligned core values of Bank to TIAA.
TIAA 2018-07-16 08:04 PDT![TIAA Logo]()
"Review of TIAA"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at TIAA full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Great culture and employee benefits. Enjoyed the job speaking with participants regarding their retirement accounts.
Cons
Management by numbers. Call center environment is managed by metrics only. You can have stellar responses from participants but if your numbers are not there, it really does not matter.
Advice to Management
Work harder on business retention and be proactive to build relationships with participants with balances below $500K
TIAA 2018-07-20 10:17 PDT![TIAA Logo]()
"Pretty Good Place"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at TIAA full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
- Pay
- Culture
- You can learn a ton, In my role I touch loads of different technologiesCons
-IT Support
- Culture(its nice but if you are younger its a bit conservative)
- Starting to Outsource a lot to IndiaTIAA 2018-07-18 10:08 PDT![TIAA Logo]()
"Stop the lay offs"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEOI have been working at TIAA full-time
Pros
Solid benefit package and ethical company
Cons
Senior leaders are more and more out of touch, focusing on their encore careers
Advice to Management
Stop the lay off and value your people
TIAA 2018-07-17 03:55 PDT![TIAA Logo]()
"Good Company"
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Pros
great employees and great environment
Cons
commute was long. and work hours
TIAA 2018-07-19 13:49 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Stop with the layoffs"
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Pros
Great mission- help people retire
Cons
Management paying themselves too much, dilutive, distracting acquistions, and endless layoffs
TIAA 2018-07-16 18:34 PDTHelpful (3)
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"Take the good with the bad"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at TIAA full-time (More than a year)
Pros
TIAA offers fantastic health benefits, has the best retirement benefits in the industry, and emphasizes work-life balance. Compared to other places there seems to be increased transparency and exposure to senior leadership: the CEO comes to Charlotte often and has Town Hall meetings and walks around the office talking to employees. The company also offers a lot of support for learning opportunities and career development through generous tuition reimbursement and support for those pursuing professional licenses and letters. Coworkers are good people and most are incredibly genuine (unlike management), and they make work much more tolerable.
Cons
Management is very inconsistent and with the company being so large, your experience really hinges on which manager you have. With the size of the company you can easily apply internally and find another team, so you have options to escape bad management. I have been on a great team and I have also been on not so great teams. Politics run rampant in some parts of the organization and once leaders get to a certain level in the hierarchy, some of them forget to be human and instead they will step on others for the next promotion or raise. I have observed many managers gossip amongst each other and that kind of behavior should not be tolerated by leadership. Instead of gossiping and politicking, managers ought to be supporting their teams more and fostering employee success at every level. The micromanagement that goes on in some teams is debilitating and negatively impacts everyone.
Advice to Management
Offer more coaching and development to mid and high tier managers: reinforce emotional intelligence and proper workplace conduct. Discourage micromanagement from leaders and offer more protection for the worker bees at lower job tiers instead of protecting managers so much. Employees are the ones carrying out most of the operations and day to day work so protect them and offer more learning and support to the ones above them. Managers need to be reminded who is doing most of the work because they are the ones who need to feel valued. Another piece of advice: revisit comp semi-annually instead of once a year. Some of us are not getting enough compensation and instead of waiting a year for a raise that is desperately needed, it would be nice to address the topic sooner rather than later.
TIAA 2018-06-25 07:26 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Financial Consultant"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at TIAA full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Inclusive environment and great benefits
Cons
Favoritism exists lack of growth
Advice to Management
Cultivate projects and opportunities for growth at Dallas campus
TIAA 2018-06-25 15:45 PDTHelpful (2)
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"call center"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at TIAA full-time (More than a year)
Pros
Great pay and PTO . 1 of few companies with pension plan. Meet great people.
Cons
Good company Wrong department. Horrible Management will fire any who don't feed in to bully mentality. If you can keep you mouth shut and not have an opinion this is great company for you.
Advice to Management
Be honest with employees Stop erroneously firing good employees to meet bottom line.
TIAA 2018-07-06 13:57 PDT
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