WillowTree reviews

- toxic management + the culture of constant feedback and performance reviews will make you feel like you are never good enough, no matter how hard you try. Management will set expectations and make promises, but when you meet the agreed upon goals and expectations, they will not honor their promises and will give you a new set of expectations to meet. They will gaslight you by saying that you are not good enough for the promotion even when you exceed the expectations. And even if you get a supportive manager, they are at the mercy of the VP above them who gets to make all the decisions. - lack of diversity. if you are not a young white American-born male, you will likely feel that you don't fit in. If you don't match the above profile, you will most likely be the only "different" person on your project's engineering team. - it's a cult. You are expected to give all of yourself for the sake of the client priorities. When you voice your concerns about being stressed out and overworked, you are told that this is the nature of the agency business model, or that your problem "doesn't exist", or that you "don't work hard enough".

Since the acquisition, things have been going downhill. There was a jarring layoff despite C Suite boasting about never doing layoffs, even during COVID, and the way they went about doing it was traumatic. They've slowly been taking away perks, making remote people feel like they are less valuable, less intelligent, less worthy, and continue to disprove all of their core values. You want mentorship? Good luck, all of the senior level engineers are being tasked with ridiculous things and meetings with clients that are circular and endless. They do not teach anyone how to mentor, they do not teach management how to manage people, they just throw everyone in the water and hope they learn how to swim. You want psychological safety and open communication? Well you can give it, but you won't get it back. Sustainable flow? Good luck with hundreds of daily meetings. Ownership? They won't take ownership of what they do, but they'll happily steal ownership over things the individual contributor has done that made a big splash. Partnership? Inclusion? If you're a minority, prepare to deal with a lot of microaggressions and get nothing done when you go to HR. Look at the ratings chart, this company has taken a serious nose dive. They are so unfocused and trying to get into voice or AI or whatever trend they want and are dividing the company further. They are losing some seriously great talent because of underpaying, overworking, and lying through their teeth.