Constantly changing expectations. - Financial Consultant TIAA Employee Review

2.0
5 Jul 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

TC has a pretty good benefits package, although that had been adjusted due to economic conditions. It is rewarding dealing with non-profits, hospitals, and universities. Also, the company has outstanding stability, which is nice to have in a financial services company these days.

Cons

TC is a dinosaur. They were such a conservatively run company for so many years that they are just now getting into the new millenium and they have seen losses in their market share dealing with non-profs, schools, and hospitals. With all the changes being made, the culture is being radically shaken up, I was hired more as a service and advice oriented consultant, but over time my job changed to primarily sales driven. Where TC was initially very generous with benefits, they have slowly reduced benefits (such as the Employer match, PTO, overtime) to be more in line with "the market." Also, they are generally understaffed in this position due to high turnover (the job kinda sucks now) and their reluctance to overstaff, this makes time off the phone severely limited. There was a lot of mandatory overtime, very little ability to take people off the phone for training, and a constant queue of somewhat annoyed customers..

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5.0
14 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great work life balance, good benefits, decent pay, ease of running your own practice as an “advisor”, and healthy work environment

Cons

Management styles can vary and affect your experience, upper management doesn’t seem to be well equipped to ensure the organization’s success but it is resilient nonetheless.

2.0
16 Jun 2026
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Pros

Compensation is great for advisors once they are promoted to VP. Everyone else has to wait a year and hope for a good rating that's more of a game than merit based

Cons

Woke culture, reverse discrimination, very frustrating to do business with as a client

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