Lately almost every conversation turns into someone talking about applying elsewhere, and a lot of them are willing to make less money if it means escaping this place. That says more about what working here has become than any employee survey ever could.
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@q6 First, I am not in tech. Also, I’m at a different stage in life now. I need time to spend with my family, and the job at TIAA is easy to handle and doesn’t drain much of my energy. I’m not the main breadwinner in the family, so that part doesn’t matter much to me. That said, even if I were younger and had no family responsibilities, I would have left in no time.
@pf agreed. After TIAA laid me off in Denver (didn't even offer me Frisco relocation though I'd probably would have declined) my fully remote role at another FinTech firm has better training and I've done more technical work here than what TIAA allowed/offered. Once a month we have a training day here.
Mind you I was very technical at TIAA and did a lot (but IT doesn't like MS access, Get it doesn't make getting DB access easy for folks who have knowledge to run queries, robotics was locked down, power apps are limited to select groups but seemed to be opening up before I was shown the door, and mygAIt was an absolute joke)... the systems and limitations at TIAA are years or decades behind the rest of the industry.
@pf are you still here? What does say about you?
@jb For recent grads, courses are okay, but experienced pros need real work to stay relevant. TIAA is lagging behind. I’m not sure where you’re seeing "smart and talented" IT folks—after years here, that hasn’t been my experience. They can’t even handle portfolio data properly. Anyone truly driven would’ve left for Big Tech by now. This place is slow and fine for coasting into retirement, but it’s a career dead-end for anyone with ambition.
@jb you getting downvoted for simply saying your learned via courses and schooling, and that you know smart people at the company
But the person before you getting upvoted for saying people have no skills
I’m convinced now that the people that complain actually are the ones with no transferable skills, do the bare minimum, only complain, and will never be satisfied with any company. Heads so far up their a-s and such an inflated view of themselves.
I used to have some sympathy on this board but forget it. Gotta be a bunch of entitled sub-30 year olds that think the world should bow at their feet.
As others have said, which I used to not agree with - the sooner they go, the better. Maybe they are part of the reason leadership has clamped down on
Clowns. 🤡
@j7 maybe some, for sure. For myself, I’ve taken full advantage of the LinkedIn learning and the other external sources. Their loss if they haven’t taken advantage of those and the tuition reimbursement. The people I work with in tech are extremely bright and talented.
@b7 After working in TIAA for sometime, people lose the skillsets to get a good job in the market. Unfortunately, this is the reality.
Have any of you checked the other Layoff boards? None of the large companies, especially the ones that are hiring, have a rosy red work culture.
I don’t think there’s this shiny toy at another company that everyone seems to think it out there for the masses.
Just block out the noise, get your 40, swipe your 3x and leave work at work in your free time.
TIAA definitely needs some changes and culture is down, but holy smokes, this board is more depressing that the work culture.
@OP BYE BYE BYE [sniff sniff]
They have hired clowns in the name of diversity in wealth. Managers who want to stick around and retire here. Wealth has become a circus with unmotivated advisors, no CRM's and tired AA's. There is literally no hope of any +changes or news here. Hybrid policy is a joke and balance is outta the window. Broken products and greedy management will make this a darker place
@ad if the T wasn’t a black female, she wouldn’t be our CEO anymore. TIAA is too scared to fire one of the few black female CEOs. They don’t want that black eye on an already beaten down company. I’m black and I have no problem saying this. She su-ks
It starts at the top.
Thasunda is so disingenuous in general but also about the state of the firm.
We have no good products. We have poor technology. We don’t do anything better than any other brokerage, bank, RIA, etc.
At the very least she needs to speak honestly about what we can do to improve instead of dancing around like a buffoon every all hands call talking about how great everything is.
Everything isn’t great and we all know it.