Stay Away from the HR Software Team. Corrupt Leadership. - Software Sales WTW Employee Review

2.0
21 Apr 2016
Recommend
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Pros

- Diverse - Competitive salary - Decent benefit packages

Cons

- All talk, no action. - HR Software group is struggling, causing the sales and product sides to crumble. - Marketing is no help - the marketing team assigned to the HR Software team has zero software experience. - You will never get anywhere unless you go through the 3+ year 'hazing' period. NOT WORTH IT. - Bonuses are scraped by the execs at the top, then whatever is left in the pool has to be divided up among the rest. - I was told I couldn't rate any of my employees higher than a 3 out of 5 due to not enough funds to pay their bonuses if I gave them a 4 or 5. - I was rated a 1 out of 5 on my annual review after I took on two teams that lost their managers to quitting, mandated travel to events not tied to my job to 'help' schmooze clients, drastically streamlined processes and improved bottom line. I fought it, got HR involved, proved my work and dedication and was eventually awarded a 3 out of 5. - Only the smart and talented leave. It is a such a bait and switch when you interview/join. The smart ones clue in and get out quick. The lazy ones find a place to hide and stay 30+ years! - Top performing sales reps would overachieve on their individual goal but also received 1 out of 5 ratings on their annual review because the team didn't hit their goals. Many of those reps have left. - No 'think outside the box' allowed. The company is a 150+ year old dinosaur. It is held together by old processes and folks with over 30+ years at the company that don't have any need or experience to enhance/improve the way things are done. - The advisory side of the business doesn't play well with the HR Software side of the business. Competition for client ownership. - Not enough experience from tenured folks. The company touts how long employees stay; but I saw it as hindering to the organization to not have the varied experiences and career in-sight to bring innovative and worthy ideas/changes.

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Pros

Great people who excel in their field and enjoyable to work with; good benefits and compensation; good feedback systems

Cons

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3.0
17 June 2026
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Pros

Paycheck is great, people to work with are generally very intelligent, positive and professional. Many positions are work from home or at least hybrid. Continuous learning is encouraged. Since the company is technically British, it is very inclusive and has several networks to ensure inclusion (although some such as the menopause support group are UK based which isn't surprising as the US doesn't typically care about such things though they should).

Cons

The workload is often insane to put it mildly. You are expected to sort of "do everything". When you are encouraged to speak up if you have too much work, they pretty much tell you "well you just have to figure out how to get it done because we have to give you more work". There is blatant favoritism. Those who are liked are praised for giving detailed answers on calls and granted a month off of PTO while those not as well liked get grilled when they ask for one day off and are told "not to overthink" when they try to provide detailed answers.

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