World Wide Technology reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(2,524 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 2,524 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
5.0
Sep 29, 2018

5 year anniversary

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Pros

Smart people to work/learn from. Lots of depth in a wide range of technologies. Management (for me) has an open door policy. Culture is unlike any other, and management continues to preach this from top to bottom. The majority of the time, it is a team effort and most if not all are willing to jump in. Work life balance is great; Im able to work from home when available. IT is responsive and usually fix my issue on 1st pass (thanks IT, love you guys!!) The best company i have ever worked at in my 30+ years of working.

Cons

Pre-sales engineer (thats me) is spread very thin in multiple technologies. Growing pains due to moving into new technology disciplines (thanks, we have a cloud story now :) . The integration center i think is a place for improved quality control and scaling. The back end systems (sales ops) seems to be an area of vast improvement. Turning quotes around is very lacking compared to other VAR's or SI's. Hiring process could be more streamlined and consistent.

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World Wide Technology Response
7y
Thank you for your 5 years with WWT and thank you for your very balanced and constructive feedback. It's appreciated.
3.0
Feb 8, 2018
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Pros

Excellent salaried position compensation, industry average for hourly associates. Best health coverage in the industry. Excellent profit sharing and 401K match. Great "Core Values" system that is leaning toward being nothing more than a slogan. Very good work/life balance, but sadly, this is also slipping away with 12 hours days becoming the norm and weekends becoming common place.

Cons

There is a considerable amount of favourtism and nepotism within WWT at the Edwardsville sites. It seriously is all about who you know. I was asked by the site to edit my previous review after having been responded to by the WWT HR staff, only to find it was no longer posted, nor were the reviews I noted to support my statements available. Which is fine and just proves my point. You can look through the interview reviews and see similar examples. There is limited opportunity for advancement as well due to the ongoing philosophy of outsourcing leadership rather than grooming from within. Many outstanding associates have left as they watched leadership get hired externally while they were passed over. Sad, for WWT is slowly moving into a production styled business and moving away from quality to bolster their already enormous bottom line.

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World Wide Technology Response
8y
Thanks. We did ask glassdoor to remove an employee's name which was mentioned in a previous posting. This was out of respect to our employee which I hope you can understand. WWT is unable to remove any reviews and has no control over doing this. If you would like to discuss this further, please let me know and I would be happy to meet with you. Thanks again.
1.0
Nov 8, 2017

Nepotism definition in dictionary: WWT

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you need a job

Cons

If you don't need one, don't look here

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World Wide Technology Response
8y
Thanks. I'm not sure which complaints or companies you're referring to.
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