Once Great Towers Consulting - Director WTW Employee Review

2.0
Dec 12, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

My comments are all about the consulting business. Good training for junior staff. Good work life balance.

Cons

Pay not great compared with similar companies. Also once you progress in your career the job is now more focused on sales than technical expertise - big change from the past. Many senior people at this company are no longer technical experts but instead have good sales skills. This changed when company was acquired by publicly traded Watson Wyatt - makes sense, need to show top line sales growth to investors. All the company cares about now is growing revenue - used to be focused on quality when it was Towers Perrin, not anymore. Many skilled consultants left for other firms. I hear it's even worse now that they've been acquired by Willis. All they care about is hitting sales quota - like any selling culture - not a good model for a consulting firm. Makes sense for an insurane broher though.

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Pros

Great people who excel in their field and enjoyable to work with; good benefits and compensation; good feedback systems

Cons

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3.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

Paycheck is great, people to work with are generally very intelligent, positive and professional. Many positions are work from home or at least hybrid. Continuous learning is encouraged. Since the company is technically British, it is very inclusive and has several networks to ensure inclusion (although some such as the menopause support group are UK based which isn't surprising as the US doesn't typically care about such things though they should).

Cons

The workload is often insane to put it mildly. You are expected to sort of "do everything". When you are encouraged to speak up if you have too much work, they pretty much tell you "well you just have to figure out how to get it done because we have to give you more work". There is blatant favoritism. Those who are liked are praised for giving detailed answers on calls and granted a month off of PTO while those not as well liked get grilled when they ask for one day off and are told "not to overthink" when they try to provide detailed answers.

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