Tries to Cut on Costs by Cutting Your Salary - Pension Analyst WTW Employee Review

1.0
Jun 4, 2019
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Pros

Very very flexible schedule

Cons

They pay their pension admin department so little based on the amount of stress and work. They have some analysts under me starting at 38K. They hire temps at $18/hr as well to cut the costs down, but they do the EXACT same amount and type of work and are intended to be hired full time. They only are called temps to save the giant company money. They have some temps TRAINING employees making 150% of their salary or more. I've myself trained someone that was hired way above my level that was only hired because she's friends with someone. It's political at best, and nefarious at worst. Don't work in this department. The bureaucracy is horrible. They also do poor work for their clients. It disgusts me the number of errors we make on elderly people's pensions. The managers are so concerned with billing and their own client-satisfaction-dependent-bonuses that they don't know the day to day work that is necessary on their clients. Everyone, including the managers, are so overworked. They work people to death and that's why they leave. It is a constant revolving door. I know four people that resigned in the past three weeks and there are only about 150 that work with us, and I don't even know everyone. That's insane.

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5.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Wonderful, intelligent colleagues, very collaborative, interesting work, lots of opportunity to move around the org

Cons

Risk averse so it’s slower to invest; penny wise but often pound foolish

3.0
Jun 17, 2026
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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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