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Tech Data

Now known as TD SYNNEX

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Tech Data reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,661 total reviews)
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Rich Hume

82% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Tech Data has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,661 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tech Data employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
Dec 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This is a company where you certainly have an advantage as a woman. The real head of IT is an avid promoter of women's rights and female advancement. This company has the stronger ratio of men to women of any company I've been to. Overall company culture is good.

Cons

Highly political. Everyone must stay in line. Upper leadership are quick to pass blame below, never reflecting on how their decisions have created the multitude of problems inherent in the culture of the department. The culture focuses on hearing Yes and those who try to look at reasons subjectively become outcastes. It behooves you to keep your mouth shut and just do your 8 hours.

1.0
May 5, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you're right out of college it's a half way decent starting point; just one notch above an unpaid internship. Make sure you fluff up your resume since other companies in the area also view Tech Data as a entry level company. Other perks you can get from working in sales or marketing are some free products, event tickets and shirts. It is a paycheck albeit on the low end of a salary range for comparable positions at other companies.

Cons

There are many downsides to the company: low pay, unqualified management who have no sense of the industry or business in general for that matter. The only way Tech Data knows how to make money is to bilk their vendors out of marketing dollars by overcharging for activities, but then not following through with them. They embelish reports to make business look better than it is. I've been working in corporate America for over 20 years and this is the first company that I ever heard the phrase "throw you under the bus", and the only place I've ever experienced it. I think they pretty much coined the phrase. Mangement is so lacking in skills the only way they can make themselves seem taller is by cutting off the heads of their subordinates. They don't lead by example and many times there are feuds between director and director, manager and manager, etc. It sets the tone for the entire company. They are their own problem and it's keeping them from growing business.

3.0
Apr 2, 2021

Not the Best Place, but Not the Worst Either

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Diverse BRGs, Remote working options, some great managers

Cons

For as much as they talk about D&I, the top leadership is still mostly male and 90% white, company culture changes drastically depending on office location, nepotism when it comes to hiring, no real room for advancement, a lot of talk about excellent employee and company performance while stagnating wages, resistant to change when it comes to Work-Life Balance, not nearly as tech savvy as you would think, inadequate training policies, increases workload without increasing pay, focuses more on appearing to be progressive without actual accountability

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