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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2.0
Jan 26, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Arrow is not the Technology company I thought it was. Turns out Arrow is an old fashion warehousing, pick, pack, and ship operation with a questionable value proposition. Having said that, if your main concern is a paycheck, Arrow's compensation and benefits are surprisingly good for a company with declining margins. If you live in south Denver, the location is great. I'd also have to say that first line management is fairly strong and employee oriented. Its upper management that is disconnected.

Cons

Arrow is caught with an old fashion business model, declining margins, strong competition, and few ideas for the future beyond cost cutting. If you're looking to finish out a working career with decent pay - Arrow may work for you. If you're a young person looking for a career - look else where. This is a company focused solely on cost cutting and surrounded by more nimble and innovative competitors. Upper management places no more value on their employees than they would a copy machine.

1.0
Dec 30, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I met some amazing, talented people there.

Cons

Arrow electronics has absolutely no humanity when it comes to the way it treats its employees. When I started, for the first year that I worked there, they were rolling layoffs every two weeks. They went from a company size of 40,000 people to 20,000 people . They implemented a hiring freeze and did not backfill for anyone that left. Through attrition, I ended up responsible for four different positions. The solution to the hiring freeze was to open an offshore location in Cairo. They placed me as a Dev lead with that office, but since I’m a woman, none of the men there would speak to me my last year I went one summer with literally no days off. Even the Independence Day I was only given half of a day off no weekends nothing my days were typically 12 to 18 hours long at one point I requested a vacation and my manager said that I was not going to be permitted to have vacation because I’m a single mother and if I took my time off And my son got sick then I wouldn’t have time to take off. Last I heard their current structure is to have architects in the US that have teams in India and Egypt that report to them and these architects have to work double shifts covering their offshore team and the business hours for the US. On top of it management was constantly shifting every few months each time there was a new person in senior management. The projects were scrapped, and we were all told we had to redo everything a different way. The workload was never decreased when we had a decrease in manpower. The teams were still expected to get the same amount of work done, but with less people

1.0
May 21, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Generally, coworkers are good people and easy to work with.

Cons

Overworked. Resources not provided to employees to develop new skill sets. Diminishing opportunities due to near-shoring/offshoring of jobs. Lack of pay/merit increases. Leadership is out of touch. Too focused on EPS and share repurchases.

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