Rumor going around that the last seven senior positions were pre selected and most were already on the same team.
Not cool.
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USAA is notorious for doing this. I worked in AML once as a 3P. When an opportunity came up to get hired as a full time employee, they tailored the job requirements given to HR to my specific experience. They also put the posting up on a Friday and took it down a day or two later with the reasoning that it wouldn’t get as many views over a weekend. I applied. I got the job.
Yup and they have hired new external directors and those people from external are giving the promotions to people they know and favor from their external organization and bringing them over. Instead of giving well deserved promotions to internal that have been there for years and know the department inside and out.
Bank IT is the same. EMG and Directors openly talk about preselecting candidates. It’s disappointing that people are ready to promote and EMG are going externally.
Seems to be happening for a while now in AML/Fraud. They need to instill in-place promotions to promote these people instead of posting for all to waste everyone's time. What is involved in the twice-a-year promotion process i.e. what documentation to justify to HR specifically?
The exec shelf-life is shorter now (except for Wayne).. They're after packaged teams to get up and running. But at some point they'll run out of people to hire b/c USAA reputation will be too shot.
OP acts like this hasn’t happened for decades here.
Bro… you must be new. USAA does this on the regular. They just pretend they don’t.
Why does HR not do a thing about these unfair hiring practices? Nobody holds them accountable for the nonsense they support in Bank. I don’t trust HR and they do our leaders bidding.
Not surprised
The promotion process takes long, e.g. twice a year, and more documentation to justify to HR. If there's an open position on the team it's much easier to have the person apply to it than have to go through the promotion process.
They should be straight promoted, but why not come out and say such and such got promoted rather than ‘hey guys a new posting is available, go apply’ knowing full well that its all pre planned from the hiring manager…
Shouldn’t people from the same team be promoted? Its pretty bs the amount of times people got manager or senior roles from other departments or externally. I’d much rather have people who work hard get promoted on their own team than have to leave to a new role because there’s never any promotions.