[SATLUG] Anyone know anything about USAA?

[tom weeks]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 06:08, Al Castanoli wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 16:12 -0500, Curt Bryson (GMail) wrote:
> > Specifically, the work environment within the IT division and company as
> > a whole?
> >
> > I've read some pretty squirrelly stuff from employees in other parts, so
> > I wanted to get a feel from IT folks.

As an insurance company and bank.. they're supposed to be top notch.  
Literally.. best customer service in the country.

As for as their internal IT group.. I have a lot of friends who have or still 
do work there.. But ITCo (if they still call their IT group that) is a 
different story that their insurance & bank sides.

While yes.. they are an old IBM/AIX shop.. they also have a good measure of 
Solaris, a ton of Windows since the late 90's.. and a growing bit of Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux (especially in their web-heads.. which they were forced to 
go to after flailing with trying to get Windows/IIS up for a number of years 
at various levels of instability).  I think their web-shop now consists of an 
IBM Websphere front end with a bunch of RedHat EL/Apache web-heads and some 
big backend SQL engine (not sure who's)....  I have some inside contacts that 
I can sniff out to ask about Linux positions.. let me know off list.

USSA's ITCo is big and bureaucratic... Not exactly the most fun place to 
work.. but it WILL pay the bills...   Just steer clear of the political and 
fiefdom battles.

Tweeks