Navient Reviews

3.3

51% would recommend to a friend

(726 total reviews)

David (Dave) L. Yowan

43% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Navient has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 726 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Navient employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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726 reviews
1.0
26 May 2023
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Ability to work from home

Cons

The red flags started right at the end of training. They said we would be shadowing other agents before we started taking calls to get an idea of how to handle calls. That was a lie and they just put us on a call on the last day of training to “check if the dialer worked.” Our first day was the job shadow, where we just listened to recordings of old calls for 4 hours. Then you’re thrown on calls with this 1000+ person group chat for help, and the TLs take forever to respond. I could never get in contact with my manager about anything. They took the bathroom break option off of the dialer, and you would have to use the regular break option for the bathroom which is added to your two 15 min breaks. The info we got during training, after training and during the job itself was all different. They stress on call times, but you need their permission to do even the smallest change on the accounts. So how does that work when I’m waiting 10+ mins for management to respond. Customers can’t be transferred to supervisors. There’s no reason given. We just have to tell them that it’s not possible, so you can tell how that goes. Not worth the strain on your mental health honestly. There is a reason why there is such a high turnover rate and they only offer the position as temporary, then tell you in training that you will be full time after 3 months.

3.0
7 May 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The company seemed so nice and great atmosphere. Interview was quick but the background check is ridiculous.

Cons

I was contacted and asked to supply my w2's to a company called Sterling, I researched and are not BBB accredited, they also have many complaints against them. I found this invasive and then said needed to investigate my internship. It was absolutely crazy. I worked at many banks, have stellar credit and never lied in my life. I feel very intrusive and opening up company for big law suit. This seems scary for entry level job and highly offensive, not to mention almost illegal with what third party can extract from this sensitive information.

2.0
15 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits. The (powerless) layer of middle management is generally trying to do the right thing.

Cons

Sallie Mae took most of the best people when Navient split off from it. Upper management is out of touch and has unrealistic expectations, which filters all the way down. The (powerless) layer of middle management is generally just trying to make them happy, so almost no communication occurs upwards, furthering the cycle.

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