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Navy Federal Credit Union

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Good benefits, but no room for advancement, managemnt has no clue - SQL Database Administrator Navy Federal Credit Union Employee Review

2.0
21 Feb 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, flexible hours, good leave (6 hours per pay period from the start for ISD).

Cons

Major work must be done after hours while working your normal day shift. Lack of direction from management. They promote work/Life balance, but it is non existent, the unspoken rule is you have to work at least 50hrs/week. Unless you are located in Vienna, you will never advance. It is a good ole boy system that rewards the incompetents with promotions. They lure you in with a lower salary/position stating your PIP will more than make up for the difference. ISD middle management is a joke, they have no formal management experience. Outstanding engineers are often promoted to managers, but lack the leadership experience, thus becoming lacking engineers and even worse managers due to micro management.

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5.0
1 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great work-life balance. Great benefits- 7% 401K match, 3% pension, $1K HSA match. 4 weeks vacation and 2 weeks sick leave. Discounted rate on mortgage or auto loan. Company really values tenure and employee retention. Hybrid schedule with 3 times a week for people leaders, 2 times a week for individual contributors.

Cons

Ver relationship-based. If you can't network, you likely won't have much upward mobility. Can be bureaucratic depending on your leadership.

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Navy Federal Credit Union Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We are glad to hear you have had such a great experience!
2.0
16 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Pay can be decent at times Met some great people

Cons

Processors are the garbage can of the entire loan process. We literally are help to such insane standards with no support. Apparently it’s been this way for years and even high ranking supervisors say they feel like they’re talking to a brick wall when they voice our frustrations. Since my time here that have been at least 2 employees that I’ve heard of that have either attempted jumping off our building or actually did jump off. Like how can you not implement change when people are so stressed that they are jumping off our buildings? If anyone is reading this and wondering how the stress gets that bad it’s because the better you do the more money you get but they keep raising the bar so when you’re use to that extra income and now you have to do so much more to get that extra income that you’re used to it can break a person down and higher ups know how bad we’re breaking down. It’s completely normal for a half hour workforce to go on mental health leave during the summer which is our busy season and still nothing is done. I haven’t even been here a full year. What is it going to take to actually implement a change?

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