Company is going downhill with leadership and toxic micro management - Senior Test Engineer WillowTree Employee Review

1.0
Jun 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- On the right team and project, the company can be a joy to work for due to support and growth. - Opportunity for promotion.

Cons

- On the wrong team, management has completely killed the team morale with their dictatorship micro management style which has affected productivity and goes against the company culture that they boast. This team alone has lost 4 team members in the last 3 weeks and you can guess why. - No remote flexibility has caused a lot of people to leave. Every other company allows this so why would people stay? - Underpaid. New big competition coming into town will poach all the few good employees at WT, causing more discouragement among teammates. Team members have already discussed their interviews with higher pay. - Employee doesn’t have a voice if it is against the words of management. - Work life balance is a joke. All the benefits are to make you believe there is work life balance but I work 50+ hours a week to meet client deadlines and still made to feel it is not enough.

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WillowTree Response
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Thanks for writing a review and sorry we have not been able to provide the experience we strive to. For sure everyone's experience here is heavily influenced by the team/client engagement one is on, so we hope that everyone who is having an experience that is not in line with expectations is comfortable raising those concerns and asking to be moved to a different team if we cannot address the underlying issues. For anyone not feeling like they are getting a voice, please never hesitate to email directly or come to my weekly office hours. As a company we do believe in a hybrid model, where being in the office part of the time fosters a level of communication, efficiency and relationships that are impossible to replicate on Zoom. We are giving teams lots of flexibility to define what this means for each team themselves. - Tobias

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