Great place to grow and learn - Platform Software Engineer WillowTree Employee Review

4.0
Oct 14, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

1. WT is a GREAT place to learn and grow your craft. You will be constantly surrounded by people smarter than you and more experienced than you who are all enthusiastic to teach and help you grow. 2. Management has really done a great job throughout COVID of being super transparent with all staff. Regular updates on how the business is doing - losses, wins, decisions and future outlook are all right out in the open for every single employee. 3. The culture at WT is super welcoming - tons of friendly people working here at every single level in the business. All said, I have really enjoyed my time working at WT.

Cons

1. Work life balance can sometimes be less than optimal. For the most part you're going to be working around 40-50 hours a week, but there are definitely times where I've had month-long stretches of 12 hour days. 2. Allocation can sometimes be murky. There have been several times that I have spent a week ramping up on a project just to find out that I'm getting assigned to another project. There are also weeks where I have touched 6 different client projects where it seems like a majority of the company is assigned to 1 client at a time. Being spread so thin along with the uncertainty of next projects can become pretty taxing after awhile.

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5.0
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Cons

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3.0
May 29, 2026
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Pros

Lots of really nice, and smart people who are very collaborative and excited to share their knowledge. This is not a prestigious place to work, so I was a bit surprised by just how smart and competent people are at WillowTree or TELUS Digital, whatever our name is. The offices are great and the office culture is ridiculously good. Huge shoutout to the employees (it's def not upper management) who go out of their way to make the office culture great. Depending on what project you're on, it can be a pretty chill place to work. If you're early in your career and need experience, the variety of projects makes this a genuinely good opportunity.

Cons

The biggest con is the compensation. It's so terrible, and far below the industry standard that I don't really see how anyone could stay here long term. They don't give raises, no one is getting promotions. There's also quite a lot of restructuring going on, and very poor communication about it. Which is par for the course in the tech industry at this point, but worth noting. It feels relatively stable for now, but I really have trouble seeing how their tech services division is going to survive as AI decreases the cost to build software. Plus, tech services as part of TELUS Digital doesn't really make any sense long term. It's a contact center business with a bunch of people that randomly make expensive mobile apps? It seems to be making enough money for now to keep going, but I feel like that could change any moment.

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