Decent people and culture; Notoriously weak pay and heavy workload - Actuarial Analyst WTW Employee Review

3.0
21 Sept 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Most people are competent, knowledgeable, friendly and willing to help junior analysts succeed in the long run - Free sports drinks in the vending machine - Health and Group Benefits promotes a very collegiate environment and there is substantial amount of unity among junior analysts - Work can be stimulating depends on the certain client team - The company does focus on professional excellence, with an extensive quality assurance process. The firm also fosters internal knowledge sharing and intellectual capital development to help streamlining service delivery and thus optimizing efficiency

Cons

- Competence and work ethics of employees can vary on two extremes - Certain senior consultants are incapable of controlling their emotions and terrorize everyone that works on their team. They make absolutely no effort to change their behavior, historically drove away few high competent associates due to deteriorating work relationships - Work-life balance is a big problem and there seems to be no fix - Compensation and benefits are lackluster, very ironic given the firm specializes in benefits consulting. The company has no revenue generation issues, so it's safe to conclude that the firm focuses on compensating individuals who are generating revenue (aka the senior consultants and above, whom are selling projects). However, leadership does need to realize junior analysts are executing the projects and churning out slides and spreadsheets at last nights.

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5.0
15 May 2026
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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

a little too much email from corporate staff

3.0
17 June 2026
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Recommend
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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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