Business Analyst - Chicago - Business Analyst WTW Employee Review

2.0
Jul 23, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the most amazing colleagues I ever worked with are here. This company has top talent and the culture (for the most part) is positive. The Chicago office had happy hour every month. The training for the Business Analyst role is good with lots of lab opportunities to practice before getting assigned a client. Very flexible culture in terms of working from home.

Cons

As a Business Analyst at Towers Watson, if you are assigned to a client with a lousy, incompetent project manager, you are doomed! Some of the project managers at this company are the biggest pains in the butt. They act like they are your "people manager", and they aren't. In addition, being assigned to those "high maintenance" clients...it will eat your life away, and it's not worth it! But, one has very little say who he/she gets assigned to...it all has to do with business needs.

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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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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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