Pros
Great Benefits, especially retirement. For Individual Consultants, salary plus bonus is so much better than commission based. Ability to offer our clients unique products not available any where else. New senior management is working hard to improve TIAA CREF.
Cons
- TIAA CREF seems to buy the cheapest systems available, then employees waste incredible amounts of time on workarounds and manual processes. Sales software takes longer to document the sale than to actually sell. The employee time reporting systems is another time waster and productivity destroyer; not to mention sends the message "we don't trust our employees". - Employees feel management is out of touch and only concerned with employees making their numeric goals, which are arbitrarily set.