TransAmerica Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"A nationally-known company to work for."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"The people were wonderful."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"The job demand was unreasonable."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Care more for the human aspects."

"Nice folks."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I had good managers."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I disliked the limited opportunity."

"They have great work-life balance and free casual dress."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I really like the people and work environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be cool and honest."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I dislike some of the technical approach."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management does a great job. There is no need to change."

"It's a great place, but too political."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"They went out of business."

"This was a great place to work."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I liked the outstanding and highly competent people."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"There was not much I disliked."

"Transamerica's upper management is working hard to make a great company to work for."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"The people at Transamerica have a passion for retirement plans and are great to work with. The upper management is innovative and communicates its vision. The company seeks to promote from within and encourages higher education and training."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The company is great to work for, and the people are very friendly and want to help. Plan compliance is an excellent source of help. It is important to understand the structure that is expected of the position and consider if it is right for you."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I did not have a complaint about the company until I transferred into installation services. Even though I proved to excel at relationships and communications, I found the daily regimentation restrictive. I prefer to work in an open structure and have difficulty in limiting certain tasks to specific days."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management needs to find a better way to ensure a better job/personality fit. The environment is very supportive, but when structure does not fit, it is hard to muscle around it."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"Great people who support one another"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Good company, and worth interviewing for."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I disliked Downtown LA."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow your people to grow, and don't limit them to their current role."

"Corporate."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I liked that it was a strong corporate environment."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be professional."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"There were too many layers of management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They leveled the playing field and wiped out some layers of management."

"The company is an excellent place to work and now moved close to my home, but it is hard to get in permanent."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I enjoyed working with familiar technologies such as MS Access and VB, which I was strongest at, as well as getting some financial experience."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest and know what you are talking about as well as your skills."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I could only get in on a contract, and when it was over, so was my job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give a chance to disabled professionals like myself who worked on your systems in the past and have some knowledge of your environment to work as a programmer or what they are best at, not just what positions are open at the time, like QA. If I agree to switch to QA just to join the firm, at least give me a chance to start off as a junior QA."

"It's a job and applicable to my career goal; however, I haven't reached my goal yet."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I like the rather relaxed atmosphere working there."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It's a good company; however, make sure that the position you are interviewing for will lead to your career goal, somehow."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I don't like the fact that I don't see any potential career growth there in the area I want to get into."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make more opportunities for those who want to become analysts with MBA degrees and not CFA designations, or value accounting experience more."

"I think Transamerica was the best job I have ever had, and I regret ever leaving."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I worked with a great group of designers on many fun projects, and I loved the people."

"The company division was sold in the mid-1990s."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"The company had good sense of HR management."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"No, as this company division was sold and has become something else."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"There was nothing negative."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to your staff advisement."

"The company is closing its doors March 1st. Otherwise, I would give it five stars across the board."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I like the flexibility."

What don't you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I dislike the lack of benefits."

"Great place to work."

What do you like about working at TransAmerica?

"I liked everything. I had a great group of executives and their subordinates to work for."