World Wide Technology reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(2,521 total reviews)
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Jim Kavanaugh

89% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

World Wide Technology has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,521 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The World Wide Technology 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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1.0
Aug 26, 2024

WWT - a place for SOME not ALL

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Pros

-Healthcare benefits (they did raise the prices of premiums this year) -Phone benefits (they pay for your phone) -Remote

Cons

If you’re not one of the chosen few from St. Louis don’t bother. It’s a boys club that lacks diversity across the organization and reflected within upper management. There’s a false sense of community that’s only available to you if they know and like you already. If not, they micromanage and gaslighting or ignore you (usually a combination of the 3) until you’re begging for some sort of acknowledgement or you leave. They struggle to run the department in an efficient manner which leaves a lot of people including clients confused. Upward mobility within the organization is nearly impossible unless you’re one of the favorites and mentorship is basically non-existent. They will tell you “to be more like [insert coworker name here]” as feedback rather than give any constructive feedback (also there was a-lot of dog-whistle racism and misogyny steeped within feedback) and leads to inherently divisive nature within the company. They’re terrible at utilizing those who come from different backgrounds in favor of those within the culture they know leaving a lot of gaps for overall improvement blinded by preferential treatment of a certain few. They preach diversity and inclusion and yet the only POC on leadership across the COMPANY is the head of DEI (which does NOTHING to help employees) and all the people who get promoted tend to look the exact same. Also I suggest you or your family don’t get sick/lose someone while working there. They will lay you off or push you out no matter what you’re going through. They’re notorious for parting ways with you during those times. I know several people who were laid off right after coming back from bereavement - so tread lightly.

1.0
Feb 13, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good Healthcare, but they'll make sure to mention that they pay a lot for it every open-enrollment

Cons

Poor raises. Poor bonuses. Silent Layoffs two years in a row. Cult-like mentality amongst both company leaders and lower org leaders. They claim to be a tech company but don't have the stomach to "do whatever it takes" to succeed in being a great place to work. More interested in penny-pinching what they pay their people (and what country they hire from) than actually winning customers on quality and innovation. They harp on innovation but don't actually have the appetite to support innovative work within the company.

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World Wide Technology Response
2y
Thank you for your review. Although this is disappointing to hear, we wish you the best in your endeavors and appreciate your feedback.
1.0
Feb 10, 2024

Very backwards company culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice office space and good healthcare

Cons

Pretty much everything else - pay was well below market rate. They say they benchmark against the market, but they give raises of 1-2% and when I left the company, I had been searching for a while and had gotten 5 different offers over the course of my year's job search and ALL of them were paying 25-35% higher than WWT. - very nepotistic, boys club mentality. High bonuses for execs of millions of dollars while refusing to give raises to the majority of employees that even keep up with the rate of inflation. - do not invest in resources. While I was working at WWT in the corporate Maryland heights office, the company won a large contract and didn't properly staff the warehouse to accommodate the shipments. Corporate execs then proceeded to shame the employees at the Maryland heights office to work their 8-5 desk job, then go work a shift at the warehouse in edwardsville from 6pm-11pm to pack boxes because they didn't hire enough workers. This was for no pay or benefit and they called it "volunteering" to fulfill a many-millions dollar contract that WWT was getting paid for. When people didn't sign up to "volunteer," management accused people I worked with of not being team players. - the company spends money on very showy events like their Global Sales Meeting, where they fly out 1500 people from various sales/sales support positions to somewhere like Vegas to stay at a hotel like the Cosmo. Employees are forced to go, but then forced to SHARE ROOMS with coworkers. I knew people that had to share a hotel room with their bosses. No option was given to not attend the conference, and if you wanted to not share a room with a coworker/boss, WWT forced you to pay for your own accommodations. Very inappropriate and weird, especially since the bathrooms at the Cosmo have windows into the hotel room, so to shower, you had to coordinate a time with your roommate so they wouldn't be in the room while you showered and still would fear that they would walk into the hotel room and see you showering. The company spends money on things that don't matter while skimping on things like basic accommodations for a mandated work trip. overall, this company does not have its priorities in line and needs to prioritize its employees rather than ONLY profit.

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World Wide Technology Response
2y
Our goal and mission at WWT is to be a profitable growth company that is also a great place to work for all. We are disheartened to see that this was not your experience while working with us. We wish you the best in your endeavors.
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