I worked as an IT consultant to USAA in '95. During the 90s, I had worked as a consultant to many large companies. USAA and one other large private company were the only two I would have considered full-time employment, with USAA coming out ahead.
My work with USAA consisted of 2 weeks there per month for a year. They worked 4 days a week, 38 hour schedule. I think somewhere around 80%++ of the company were there only Monday to Thursday. Their pay scale for IT jobs was very good. I worked as a troubleshooter for the various Smalltalk projects so I saw many different projects in different parts of the company: new banking stuff (they were just getting into it), customer service apps, insurance policy management and risk exposure analysis, marketing and sales pipeline management, etc.. all in all, I was impressed. Sounds like 15 years later, they still have this reputation.
My work with USAA consisted of 2 weeks there per month for a year. They worked 4 days a week, 38 hour schedule. I think somewhere around 80%++ of the company were there only Monday to Thursday. Their pay scale for IT jobs was very good. I worked as a troubleshooter for the various Smalltalk projects so I saw many different projects in different parts of the company: new banking stuff (they were just getting into it), customer service apps, insurance policy management and risk exposure analysis, marketing and sales pipeline management, etc.. all in all, I was impressed. Sounds like 15 years later, they still have this reputation.