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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3.0
Nov 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The company and executive leadership have a great thing going here. Technology is exploding and this company is taking full advantage. WWT has a solid customer base and I expect them to be around for a long time. Great health benefits.

Cons

Leadership. Unfortunately, the management here does not lead. Supervisors and senior management come from friendship rings. They are in desperate need of true leaders, not management, with business knowledge. Process management. This reflects back to the lack of leadership knowledge. We need a better process for almost everything. You have the wild west in LTC. One manager/sup wants it done one way, the next does it another way. This leads to confusion and headaches. No help to build your career. Again, going back to leadership. If you are not looking or already good friends with management forget about a career path. There is little to no career coaching or advancement. Pay structure. Pay is low. Others along with myself truly feel underpaid.

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World Wide Technology Response
8y
Thank you for sharing this and I can assure you that your concerns are being looked in to. Thanks for your hard work and dedication to the company.
2.0
Jun 7, 2017

Least favorite job in recent memory

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Work From Home Policy - Casual Dress - You get issued nice laptops - Management is approachable

Cons

Note: I'm in IT Operations, and other areas of the business might not have these issues. WWT has several business practices that, while they may be acceptable or even liked by some, make working here extremely unpleasant for me. - The workspaces are 100% open. There is no privacy whatsoever. Everyone is situated at tables and anyone, at any time, can & probably will walk over and interrupt you. It's also noisy, and just, in general, makes concentration difficult. - Everything is "urgent". Nobody knows how to prioritize, and nobody knows how to schedule. - The culture there revolves around fingerpointing, constant meetings, and middle management breathing down your neck. - It's a bit of a boys club. There's very little in the way of diversity. - Agile methodology is being shoved down everyone's throats. If we were developers, I'm sure that'd be great. But we're ops, and it's not a good fit. - Frequent 50+ work weeks. - There's very little in the way of project management. Engineers are expected to do all this work themselves, in addition to actually doing the design & implementation + managing support responsibilities. - There is no cafeteria. One would think that a company of this size might offer a cafeteria on its campus, or at least schedule food trucks every day.

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World Wide Technology Response
9y
Thank you these details and for taking the time. Yes, the work space is open and this is to encourage collaboration. We definitely are a fast paced environment as well. All of this isn't for everyone and we're not perfect. Thanks for the advice and good luck.
2.0
Oct 19, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Privately held company, they are vendor neutral.

Cons

Very unorganized. Management team is terrible. They are fake in what they preach to there employees about there core values.

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World Wide Technology Response
10y
Thanks. I'm sorry about your experience. Good luck.
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