WillowTree reviews

2.7

31% would recommend to a friend

(96 total reviews)
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Tobias A. Dengel

39% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

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1.0
Nov 14, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- There are some good humans still left that I genuinely miss working with on a daily basis - The cafeteria is convenient, and the humans that work there are lovely

Cons

- Lower than average salaries for the industry with minimal raises (even for cost of living) - Policies and timelines surrounding promotions and raises keep changing - WT used to build above average software, but it doesn’t really have standards anymore - Constantly seeing your teammates leave is hard - There have been at least 4 rounds of layoffs in 3 years - Zero attention or care is given to employee satisfaction or trying to be a “great place to work” (incidentally, that started the year they sold for $1.25 billion, laid off a bunch of humans 6 months later, and then they stopped asking us to fill out that survey…) - Everybody left is constantly making jokes about the day TELUS fires everybody in North America - They lie to a class of interns every year, leading them to believe that they could be hired. Interns are used the for cheap labor, and then sent on their way. The company hasn’t hired any in at least 2 years. - The thing that made WT a good place to work wasn’t that it was ever perfect but that it was fair to say that “people cared”, and when there was a problem, there was always a way to talk to someone about it and a path to try to make it better. That is no longer true. Now, bad (and often poorly considered) policies go into effect on a regular basis, and it feels like there is almost some level of joy coming from the higher ups in the way that they are “sticking it to entitled employees that used to have too much power”

1.0
Aug 23, 2025

Great place to waste your potential

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you are in a pinch and need a job with benefits, and can pass their interview process, sure, go for it

Cons

This place is a total dumpster fire of execs that have no idea how to manage a business and a director level that’s 100% unable to change a thing. I spent way too much time of my life here consistently working well over 40hr a week delivering for one of our toughest clients for essentially nothing. And in the highest inflationary environment in over 20 years this company refused to raise salaries one bit. Health care costs up. All other costs up. WillowTree? “We don’t have the budget.” Thanks for being a sucker and thinking your loyalty and driving client success would be rewarded. Their stock? In the toilet as AI eats their lunch and they play around with whatever the heck FuelIX is. And now TELUS put in an offer to buy the whole thing back. Execs? Half of them were grandfathered in from the WillowTree days and couldn’t manage their way out of a paper bag. Good riddance. I don’t know what this place is going to look like in 3 years but I’m also not interested in sticking around to find out

3.0
Apr 15, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay for entry level Great people (at least at my office) client based, so the project can be either super relaxed or stupid annoying

Cons

Dying company consistent layoffs and low morale (no one really goes to the office, lowkey a pro) Slow promotion cycles (they reduced it to one a year)

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