World Wide Technology Software Developer reviews

4.3

92% would recommend to a friend

(55 total reviews)
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Jim Kavanaugh

74% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated World Wide Technology with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. World Wide Technology is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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55 reviews
4.0
Sep 7, 2017

Asynchrony Review

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Pros

Interesting Software Company based out of St Louis (big for the region) - team structure is very agile and heavy focus on quality (TDD)

Cons

Company needs more structure and drive to be truly successful. Over-focus on TDD and engineering quality vs. Product can lead to over-engineered solutions.

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World Wide Technology Response
8y
Thanks for the positive review! Since your review (as you probably know), we've been putting more structure in place to help people feel connected while not taking away from the team-level autonomy to get the job done that's been successful for us in the past. Our hope is that helps in the "structure" and "drive" department, as it will also allow us to focus on individual professional development and improvement. There's always a balance to be hit for engineering/code quality and delivery, and this is one of the hardest aspects of what we do. We rely on our teams, with the help of our coaches, to find this balance and make the micro-decisions every day that will keep them with a solid, maintainable code base without overengineering and "gold-plating." If you see your team going too far in one direction or the other, don't be shy about speaking out and/or grabbing a coach to help find the right compromise.
5.0
May 22, 2017

Superior processes

Recommend
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Pros

True agile development, extreme programming: pairing, TDD, retrospectives, feedback, role flexibility; constant improvement, interesting and varied projects, a little bit of project management for everyone on every team, small and focused teams, wonderful work-life balanced, amazing benefits.

Cons

Some clients end up pushing teams away from one or more of the extreme programming practices that are held in such high regard.

5.0
May 7, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Legitimate agile shop. We get everything we need to succeed. High level of autonomy. Flat company structure. Highly collaborative. Good pay for the area. Generally enjoyable.

Cons

Some of the people we've hired are great, others are less pleasent to work with. In a highly collaborative environment, social skills are extremely important, and it seems like we've been a bit lax on that in our hiring lately.

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World Wide Technology Response
9y
Thanks very much for the comments, it sounds like you're getting the benefits that we work to achieve here. As far as the difficult people, I'm not sure it's about anything we've done in the hiring process; it's not easy to determine what someone is going to be like to work with until you spend time with them. We would encourage you to give direct feedback to those people and escalate to team and/or executive leadership if that doesn't seem to have an impact. We are working to be a place where feedback is given regularly and openly, and people have the opportunity to understand what they need to change in order to be better team members. Thanks again, and it's great to have you!
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