Arrow Electronics reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,557 total reviews)
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Bill Austen

59% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Arrow Electronics has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,557 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arrow Electronics employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Aug 31, 2017

Layoff Central

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Pros

The work isn't difficult. Most of the co-workers are good people. Benefits are decent.

Cons

Quick to fire/ lay-off people, usually with no notice. Management loves to have secret meetings usually about who is getting the can next, and seldomly defends their employees. Technology inside the branches are outdated. No ability to work from home. Not competitive pay compared to other similar companies. Lack of opportunities to advance, especially in the branches.

1.0
May 4, 2017

Very poor executive leadership

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Pros

Strong employee base. Some really skilled folks working in the organization.

Cons

Executive leadership team is dysfunctional. They don't get along and play lower level employees off each other for political gain. Very much out of touch with the employee base and looking out for their own good. CEO has a nasty temper, which he is allowed to show off regularly. No other executive will challenge him for fear of losing their cush job. Very little oversight by the board of directors in areas that matter.

2.0
Oct 14, 2021
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Pros

Higher than average starting salaries. Fairly decent benefits - health insurance is a crap shoot no matter what these days but their H.I. programs were far better than the company I had come from before Arrow. Some managers are okay to work with.

Cons

No training program(s) whatsoever. It’s very much a sink or swim environment from the get-go. There isn’t really any company culture, just a bunch of drones crunching numbers for 9 hrs a day. Co workers at your same job grade are often rude, impatient during the learning / onboarding process, and quick to finger-point. No bonuses ever in this department because bonuses are reserved for revenue generating positions such as sales. “Unlimited” vacation days per year is a scam because instead of accruing PTO and having to use-it-or-lose-it by year end, almost every employee will inevitably take maybe 1/2 or less vacation days as they otherwise would. Pre pandemic the company had a very strict in-office everyday policy and would only let you WFH if you had a broken leg or something and got sign-off from upper management (no company I had previously worked for was nearly as strict about being in-office every day, with hardly any exceptions like a sick child for example)

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