Great people, but has some flaws - Senior Software Engineer WTW Employee Review

3.0
May 24, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The people are amazing and are why people stay. The business is fast paced and challenging which is a benefit. They have solid onboarding program and mentorship throughout the engineering staff. They do allow permanent work from home and a pension. They are also actively trying to figure out how to keep their employees which is a plus.

Cons

Engineers are underpaid for market despite the company saying otherwise and they have no intention of paying market value. They have also used bonuses to seem as if they were going to get you a large bonus for the year based on the first half percentage, just to cut it back in the second half of the year. The lack of staff makes it difficult to keep good employees. Teams are continuously overworked and if they ask for a new employee to fill a void they have to jump through a lot of hoops. Talent continuously leaves due to how management handles employment and labels employees as disgruntled instead of addressing the issue at its core. Expect to work long hours, take your laptop on vacations and not be able to take PTO during projects and during the busy season.

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Pros

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Cons

Long hours in the 3rd & 4th Q

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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