World Wide Technology reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(2,523 total reviews)
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Jim Kavanaugh

89% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

World Wide Technology has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,523 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The World Wide Technology employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
May 2, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, decent job security with steady work.

Cons

I work in the lab at LKV, and it's gradually become an absolute mess. It started out as a relaxed place where so long as you were diligent and didn't waste time, you were treated with respect as an employee and a person. Management has become dead-set on destroying that, going out of their way to insure they control their employees as much as possible to flex their egos. They constantly spout the core values, yet never adhere to them. The very rules they enforce on employees are then openly broken by management, or their favorites, with no punishment. They will find any excuse to keep an employee down and lower their raise to a few pennies. Some managers have even lied about their employees, intentionally preventing them from advancing their careers so said employees stay working in the lab under that manager's thumb. Even managers who have been previously written up and booted out of other departments get free reign here, able to throw as many people under the bus as they can for their own careers. There are a maximum of 2-3 decent, competent people in management. Everyone else is a bully going on a powertrip with no end in sight. I don't know if HQ will ever do anything about this situation at this point, but when they do it will be too little, too late. World Wide Technology is a great company as a whole, but this is somehow the worst of it all concentrated in one area.

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World Wide Technology Response
8y
Thank you. If you are able to share some specifics on how we could improve the situation, please contact me or anyone on the HR team in Edwardsville. Thanks again.
2.0
May 1, 2018

All That Glitters Aint Gold

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits package Flexibility, able to work from home

Cons

This company is not what I thought it would be. The longer you work here, the more you see the flaws. 1) Nepotism 2) Pay is low 3) Frivolous spending Nepotism needs to be addressed - in no way should a sister report to her brother, or a sister report to her sister, etc. An org. shake up needs to be done. Also, too many new hires have executive connections. Pay is low, and there is no good way to get a bump in your salary. If you think you'll increase your pay by moving to a different position, think again. You will continuously move laterally. So, you will end up doing more work with the same amount of pay. Company really should scale back on frivolous spending. There are departments that really could use additional head count and can't get the people they need. As the company tightens up on hiring, it doesn't appear to tighten up on unnecessary spending.

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World Wide Technology Response
8y
Thank you. Much of our growth (especially in our smaller and more remote locations) has been with the help of employee referrals. I agree that some of the reporting relationships are not ideal and we are working on the best and most appropriate ways to address them. If you are able to share more specifics on the frivolous spending feedback, please contact a member of the HR team. Thanks again.
5.0
Feb 16, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

I have been with the company 8 Years and lived through the explosion of growth. 1 Billion to 10 billion is pretty amazing for a VAR. Credit the executive team and some visionary leadership from key personnel to diversify the business and create a unique end to end service offering for Systems Integration. No one can even come close to what WWT has. Culture is the real deal for the most part. Of course when you get to 5K employees you cant have perfection but it is way above par. The executive team emphasizes culture daily and i feel does all it can to preserve and foster good people and a great work environment.

Cons

1. Pay is low to average. 2. No real opportunities for advancement or at least merit based advancement. You still have to know someone. 3. HQ centric. You have to work in St. Louis to really enjoy the great place to work benefits. No special consideration for remote employees. 4. Some divisions are run by long time employees and it is obvious the company has outgrown their management ability. Lots of nepitism. Lack of trust. This makes promotion difficult or downright impossible. 5. Internal communication and processes are downright immature and frankly terrible. So many tools and no one uses them or don't know how. This is probably my only real complaint. A file management plan consistently enforced down to each employee with a quality search engine that actaully can find things would be just termendous to making life easier for existing and new personnel. 6. Training programs are poor. Well it actually doesnt exist for almost any position in the company. It is person to person transfer and new people just have to stumble along for months until they just figure things out.

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World Wide Technology Response
8y
Thanks for taking the time to share these details and thanks for your confidence in our executive team in addressing issues like the ones you describe. Some things take more time than others to improve and are part of the process as we continue to grow. Thanks for your 8 years of service!
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