Curious to know if they are still renewing the H1B in 2026 ? Or they have stopped doing the renewals too? I know they have stopped sponsoring work visas for new roles.
Stop
Stop the fear mongering on this site. We were assured that “ CDAO, CTO, and P&C Tech” would have massive layoffs: nothing. We were promised, bullied if even questioned the source of Fraud and AML having massive layoffs in April/May. Well April and... — read more
RTO conditions would get harder, and control would tighten
That's the whole point. It was always meant to be an attrition tool.
RTO - Corporate Investigation
Not sure if this is company wide or just certain departments, but it looks like they’re going to start cracking down on hours in office for salaried employees. Last month a girl on a neighboring team was placed on “administrative leave” as she was... — read more
Layoffs Coming to Member Protection
Expect there to be layoffs June/July in Member Protection aka Fraud, Disputes, and AML first like operations. Rumor has it most will be in the Fraud space as they over hired when the old guard went out and the new guard came in 2023/2024. I imagine... — read more
More Cuts In Tech
There will be more cuts in Tech next week. Some may happen this week. Grandpa and his merry brothers are ready to cut. Here are the areas I know - CDAO, CTO, and P&C Tech. Trust me this is coming down the pike.
Interesting
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs
Waiting for potential severance or retirement
Is there any advantage to informing HR about retirement plans ahead of time? With the possibility of layoffs and severance packages at Bank, I’m unsure whether I should let HR know that I’m planning to retire in July. I would also be eligible for a... — read more
Trapped between a bad job and no job
I would love to leave, but there are no good jobs out there and even the bad ones are hard to find. Every single company seems to be running on skeleton crews and layoffs seem to be around every corner. So I stay here, even though my motivation is... — read more
Microsoft Teams - Remote Employees, Get Ready
People are posting the same question all over the public channels: How is having Teams in addition to these other products saving us any money? The answer is that it's not. First of all, Teams will replace pretty much everything eventually, but the... — read more
Buying PTO
Is buying PTO a real thing? Can you do in middle of year if you are new ?
Memorial day ceremony
Pretty moving.
Privacy out of Tech into Compliance
Overnight decision to move then out of the sla-ghter house currently known as Tech moves under Nish. Do we really need a chief privacy officer in that model and do we need over twenty people in a second line role where all of their functions were... — read more
Member Protection or Leader Protection?
Why do I have to talk to multitudes of people and teams across Member Protection and Risk to update my control? Why does every change go through “review” by people who don’t have anything to do with my process? Why does it take me longer to educate... — read more
The Bank would have failed years ago…
Without the financial support of the rest of the organization, the bank would have ceased several years ago. This goes all the way back to General Joe, when the growth of the bank should have resulted in changes that were left ignored, resulting in... — read more
We need to start ignoring bad actors here
This site was once a community and source of knowledge. It’s in a tailspin of conspiracy theories. When someone makes a reference to an exec from 3 years ago, and is no longer here. Ignore them. When someone makes an outrageous claim like “30%... — read more
Are we still competing with peers
Dont know how we are doing with competition.
Are we still looking at RTO ?
Are there any changes to 5 days?
Never did I ever
Honestly, I never thought the current Bank President would have such a devastating impact on USAA Bank’s culture, organization, and people leadership. I knew him when he was an ED, watched him move up through the ranks, and genuinely congratulated... — read more
Who did Dan fire? He now has 142 directs.
Who did Dan fire? He now has 142 directs.
No peace of mind
Has there been a single day in the past 12 months that we didn't have to worry about cuts? I'm pretty sure the answer is no. Even after the cuts are freshly over, we immediately start thinking about the next round, because we all know it's coming... — read more
If things are falling apart, the only way to turn a profit is to reduce headcount
Unfortunately, if things are falling apart, the only way to turn a profit is to reduce headcount, and that is not sustainable. That works on Wall Street but not with a private company. You do not have investors to impress and no stock price to move ... — read more
Huge cuts coming up.
Dan has been give 20-30% reduction in costs now. There will be massive cuts for 3P and employees. Expect layoff, expect old investigations opened up, and expect minor issues to result in termination. The teams that will be hit are EDAO, P&C IT, Corp... — read more
One year later, I'm glad they cut me
It’s been exactly one year since my short meeting that ended my time at USAA. I stopped by here to see how things are going, and all I can say is I feel bad for everyone still stuck there. Even when I left, getting work done was already a nightmare... — read more
How we work
If your EMG is talking about “how we work” and is having your leader write out each of your job duties and what it entails, that is the first step in deciding who gets their 60 days notice. Word of advice, make sure you let your leader know... — read more
Quiet layoffs
This wasn’t a mass layoff like the one in January, but a few one offs occurred today. My manager and our 2 leads had their roles eliminated today, we were told the news at 4:30pm. Only thing the AVP said was their roles had been eliminated after a... — read more
H1B Emp - Next is your turn
Move before it get worst
Chief Claims Officer just left
So...Serafin's departure email just hit. Was in there for less than a year, and just moved to San Antonio. Clyde left a dingle berry of a mess from Op Model AND move to Guidewire. If you objected to the simultaneous switch, you were labeled as "not a... — read more
Future bank fridays
What the heck was this boring useless and common sense drivel????? Hot mess…. Nobody knows whats going on with it… Doesnt usaa know that a good portion of employees do not deal or interact with members?????
New Chief Compliance Officer Remote
USAA has a policy that all new roles are in office. Remote employees that post for new roles must move to an office location if they want a new role. It also has a policy that all roles are posted for at least 5 business days. This does not appear... — read more
CIO Collecting direct reports like Thanos
He's got 28 under him right now, soon to be 29. What's the endgame? What's going on?
How is ERC & Tech Risk team culture
Any insight? Discussing a role.
Bad Hire
Fires 40 pct of his direct reports and assumes their roles, including Availability. figures out that most outages occur during change, so now unnatural acts of impossible clairvoyance are expected, with the implication of losing your job due to... — read more
Backdoor layoffs in IT in progress…
At least four IT Infrastructure peeps were terminated without severance pay this week following an “investigation” for “policy violations”. Witch hunt in progress. Don’t give them any excuses.
Leadership keeps blaming remote work for our problems and trying to force more RTO
But that's not it. It's never been it. The problem is the constant layoffs and the never ending changes. Let us go back to working from home more and maybe people would actually want to work more and be more productive again.
RB and company sacked
RB and folks were sacked after an Investigation.
Cracking down on rto
Getting emails that keep reinforcing rto at four days, notably leadership… Apparently, they dont want to deal with stupid stuff like the friday trainings we now have and the upslilling that has nothing to do with 95% of our roles…
I wish the job market was better
I would have been out of this place a year ago. But no luck so far. How many others are stuck just because they can't find anything else right now?
ex-interim of technology org gone
New tech leader Dilbert look like dude [who loves diving] sacked him? No communication was made.