Tech Data reviews

No technical skills required, low pay, mediocre benefits, micromanagement. An outdated office environment, using a telemarketing approach to a technical endeavor. As long as you have certs that the company can tell a Vendor "hey we have this many people with your cert pay us a lot of money to hawk your product". They are not interested in degrees, only certs, unchallenged at every task. If you are technical and like hands on work, STAY AWAY, your skills will rot, this is where careers come to die. They also have a "diversity and inclusion" policy that is making the place a magnet for every perpetual victim, marginalized person, people with chips on their shoulders and axes to grind. Very PC, dont rock the boat with original thought. Tolerance confused with acceptance.

- Office politics run rampant. - Lack of standardized training in nearly every department. - Lack of direction and feedback will depend entirely on your manager as they operate semi-autonomous fiefdoms of desk clumps. - Despite local awards, there is an obvious lack of real inclusion. An overbearing conservative mindset only fosters this as they use anecdotal examples rather than real solid statistics to market this facet. - HR is there to look out for the company and often powerless or straight unwilling to make any improvements. - Open floor plans do not foster a positive environment especially when the wage gap between even team members is stifling. It's also terrible for concentration in a technical field or when working with large calculations. - Lower level people (nearly all the general employees) are often kept entirely in the dark but are expected to react swiftly and with little to no support. - Will treat your employment like a gift you cannot repay. - High turnover in sales, internal logistics, and at logistic centers (warehouses). - Willing to undergo massive remodeling and branding projects while enduring layoffs had an unsurprisingly negative effect on company morale. - There is a clear double-standard in terms of daily responsibilities and expectations for what is seen as the "inner-circle" of management and their confidants and the rest of the employees. (The 13 Club was a nickname for the entry level people that felt a clear divide between those making entry level pay for years and those shopping for new Mercedes at their desk loudly.) There's nothing quite like watching bonuses get literally handed out to your team members while you're struggling. - Compared to a lot of places around here the pay is standard, but for IT professionals who are often able to work remote at companies, the financial incentive is minimal. - Meetings to have meetings about meetings. It's 2017 and anything that can said in a meeting can be done on a WebEx or in email. There are much better ways to build trust between a team than a meets on weekly numbers. - Don't expect a cost of living or raise in general without a promotion.