Thread regarding USAA layoffs

Set impossible expectations, remove features, add additional criteria and processes, repeat

6 months with USAA in AML detections and it’s been this exact pattern. Nearly impossible goals to meet in terms of production, merciless quality assurance measures that don’t make any sense and change twice a week (literally) the removal of features for “security” or “IT downtime” (permanent IT downtime I guess) and then they add additional criteria and processes to follow.

I wanted to do AML work to aid law enforcement in fighting money laundering and white collar crimes, but all I’m getting is bent. At this point it feels like USAA is striving to make their work environment as soul crushing as possible, with a mentality that people are just batteries; use them up, throw them out and replace them when they’re done.

Hope that there’s a push to unionize in the future, assuming all the employees don’t get canned by then.

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Hopefully things will get better. Ive heard there was multiple Directors and Manager level layoffs recently in both AML Detection and Investigation. Some them came from Chase where they left the AML Investigations with backlogs of over 3 months past the 90 day due date SLA for filing SARs. We were stuck working cases aged 6 months in total...I guess something similar happened at USAA but this time they were were shown the door. Everything the OP says about working in AML at USAA is spot on. Be warned.

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Post ID: @Jxtu+19dif9GP

The back end technology is utter sh– too. It takes forever to do work because of USAAs infrastructure and end user applications.

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