What is the hiring process like at Arrow Electronics?

They have a great path for newbie’s

Hiring process sometimes take longer than expected

Atmosphere and people were great. Working in Cybersecurity

Training and onboarding process was poor

Large global public listed, opportunities for growth

Regionally messed up by previous management, in process of being cleaned up.

I met some amazing, talented people there.

Arrow electronics has absolutely no humanity when it comes to the way it treats its employees. When I started, for the first year that I worked there, they were rolling layoffs every two weeks. They went from a company size of 40,000 people to 20,000 people . They implemented a hiring freeze and did not backfill for anyone that left. Through attrition, I ended up responsible for four different positions. The solution to the hiring freeze was to open an offshore location in Cairo. They placed me as a Dev lead with that office, but since I’m a woman, none of the men there would speak to me my last year I went one summer with literally no days off. Even the Independence Day I was only given half of a day off no weekends nothing my days were typically 12 to 18 hours long at one point I requested a vacation and my manager said that I was not going to be permitted to have vacation because I’m a single mother and if I took my time off And my son got sick then I wouldn’t have time to take off. Last I heard their current structure is to have architects in the US that have teams in India and Egypt that report to them and these architects have to work double shifts covering their offshore team and the business hours for the US. On top of it management was constantly shifting every few months each time there was a new person in senior management. The projects were scrapped, and we were all told we had to redo everything a different way. The workload was never decreased when we had a decrease in manpower. The teams were still expected to get the same amount of work done, but with less people

Its a large company so lots of opportunities and different things you can be doing, but hard to move around

Layoffs every year. Consistently going through the process of hiring, over hiring, and then layoffs. Office culture is a dry and slow moving. The office is nice but back culture, people don't talk much, know each other, and people feel stuck to in their career. With tight budgets, teams don't much socializing and events for team building. Hard to change rolls and mid-management has no skills in leadership.

Arrow has a few decent health care options. Good Coworkers

HR seems to discourage career growth, and actively throttles team expansion and promotions, even if funds are there. Looking past the positive career branding there is little to no incentive for personal growth. This is seen with little to no coaching interest at the director/manager level, and if employees ask about growing their careers they are directed to HR slides. Immense interest in employees staying in the same role for 10+ years. Salaries are strongly governed on the curve to restrict pay increases so you will always be tied to your "day one of hire" wage, even if you do extremely well in your role or your manager moves you to a role with more responsibilities years later. Executives and HR prefer to hire outside of the existing business to fill open roles, even if internal talent in available, and ignore the low success rate of this approach. They rely heavily on the passionate employees to solve the daily issues with no recognition or compensation for efforts time after time.