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
