1) Frequent layoffs. WWT is hyper-focused on their "Great places to work" status, but only current employees are surveyed. Entire teams are often laid off without warning and without their "great employer" first attempting to relocate them elsewhere in the company or with regard to existing client contracts. This leads to a culture of uncertainty & fear, where workers are told to not to worry about the other cattle being loaded into trucks. 2) Services-oriented executive leadership is perpetually floundering. They simply don't know how to sell services, but when they do land a few deals they rapidly over-hire for those skillsets to meet anticipated future demand which never materializes, leading to a yo-yo-diet workforce. This feeds into layoffs as outlined in item #1. 3) They track every hour of your day with an internal tool requiring justification for everything. Viewed by some as micro-management is actually compensation for #2. 4) WWT thinks their "values" (the PATH) are unique in the industry, when in fact most large orgs have similar corporate mantras. What's unique is how hard WWT pushes these values in a cult-like manner, preached via weekly all-hands meetings and individual discussions with management centered around them. This is in addition to the billionaire chairman's "prosperity theology" ramblings, which may not be everyone's cup of tea.
