WTW reviews

3.9

77% would recommend to a friend

(8,089 total reviews)
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Carl Hess

84% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

WTW has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 8,089 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WTW employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Mar 6, 2017

Easy job, no growth potential

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work is interesting, people are nice and we have lots of flexibility, especially now that they are putting in the tried and failed hoteling concept in several core offices. Pay is good and the office space is nice (pre-hoteling).

Cons

Leaders are often not as qualified as those they lead (this is on the Willis, pre merger side and we hoped that would change but it has not so far). Not much transparency about the merger (what's really going to happen). No growth potential. Raises are miniscule. There are junior people who need a lot of mentoring and receive none. Promotions seem to be based on seniority and not capabilities.

1.0
Jan 2, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Advancement is promoted before the end of the fiscal year. I was able to obtain a leadership role after a month employment.

Cons

Nepotism at it's best. Slackjaw croanies will attack. A lot of great employee's are being lost to a cover up of bad judgement and lack of proactive skills as authority figures. More training on how to systematically save self at the end of the fiscal year. Poor wage practices and 2 day notice of decrease in wages.

2.0
Dec 12, 2016

Once Great Towers Consulting

Recommend
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Pros

My comments are all about the consulting business. Good training for junior staff. Good work life balance.

Cons

Pay not great compared with similar companies. Also once you progress in your career the job is now more focused on sales than technical expertise - big change from the past. Many senior people at this company are no longer technical experts but instead have good sales skills. This changed when company was acquired by publicly traded Watson Wyatt - makes sense, need to show top line sales growth to investors. All the company cares about now is growing revenue - used to be focused on quality when it was Towers Perrin, not anymore. Many skilled consultants left for other firms. I hear it's even worse now that they've been acquired by Willis. All they care about is hitting sales quota - like any selling culture - not a good model for a consulting firm. Makes sense for an insurane broher though.

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