Experienced developers, look elsewhere - Software Developer &Amp; Integrator I USAA Employee Review

4.0
28 Feb 2016
Recommend
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Pros

-Very good 401k (8% match, ultra-low fee index funds) -Lots of personal time off -Lots of company provided training -Campus has a lot of facilities

Cons

-Low base pay. Same job pays 30% more elsewhere in San Antonio and Austin. -Promotions not based on talent, but on tenure. -44 hour work week with no overtime. Regularly goes to 60+ hours near releases. -Uninteresting tech stack (Java EE). -No dependency management. -Extreme complexity in systems. I hope you like the build/deploy process taking upwards of an hour, just to test code. -No one knows how to get stuff running locally. -Company obsession with time-to-market at all costs -Huge amounts of dev work are outsourced to India/Mexico. -More meetings and management than programming. -Absolutely no interest in delivering quality code or creating a good experience. -People with client-side skills are non-existent. -The people making tech decisions haven't coded in 20 or 30 years.

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5.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great employee benefits Nice PTO Work life balance

Cons

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5.0
8 May 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Life work balance, great benefit package and nice colleagues. The goal of the company is providing the best service to its members. So, they treat employees the best to encourage them to do the same for members.

Cons

Slow IT support, limited interactions with industry. Banking business is not as mature as insurance.

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