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3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(53 total reviews)

Steve Walker

80% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Walker Information has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Walker Information employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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53 reviews
1.0
22 Dec 2017

Walk(er) the Other Way

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Walker has generous PTO. A job at Walker can be a great launching pad for a career in project management. Most companies want experienced project managers. This company will allow you to come in at the ground level, having no real project management experience and work your way up. As many others have said, you will work with a lot of other young professionals.

Cons

Other than the PTO, most of Walker's benefits are lackluster or nonexistent. For example, the 401 match is not the best and there are no maternity/paternity leave benefits. Unfortunately, the substandard pay does not make up for the lack of good benefits. The burn out rate is very high. To top it off, job security at this company is low. They have been continually laying off employees all year. There is no real company culture. Employees pointed this out in an annual employee satisfaction survey and since then execs have been throwing around the word culture, but there is still no company culture to be found. Training is lacking. Most training is self-led and team dependent. Walker boasts of a solid process for running projects but over the last few years, that process has fallen apart and feels more like a free-for-all. This is a toxic work environment and a boys club through and through. Promotions are based on who is friends with who and not on talent or effort. They make a habit of overworking their employees, especially their Client Service employees. There are many conversations held behind closed doors that if addressed directly would cultivate a more efficient work environment. Further, the level gossip is horrendous, especially among the higher levels. Higher level employees will happily tear down lower level employees to other higher ups instead of working to fix whatever it is they find displeasing. Further, the company has some weird fascination with tearing down millennials, which is interesting considering that is a large portion of their workforce. Instead of adapting to the changing workforce and changing market, many suggestions on how the company could improve from both employees and clients were brushed off as "millennial complaints". This landed Walker in some hot water this year as they are continually losing clients and most of their employees are miserable. When you eventually leave, Walker will take it personally. Walker prides themselves on having "retreads" (employees that leave and come back). However, these days, they treat departing employees so poorly, retreads are going to be a thing of the past.

1.0
2 Dec 2017

Top Down Issues

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good place to gain experience and quickly advance from entry level. You will be given the opportunity to learn a lot and really hone your skills working with clients. Flexible schedule/ability to work from home once you have been there about a year. (Must first "prove" yourself.) You can take time off for appointments in the middle of the day, leave early to get the kids off the bus, work from home for repairs, etc. Opportunity to learn about a variety of industries due to working on multiple client projects. Wonderful people at the entry/junior/mid-manager levels who will invest time in you to help you learn company processes. Fast-paced work environment where you will do a lot of different things everyday, so it never feels like you are operating on repeat.

Cons

Once you have become a Senior PM (usually takes about 3-4 years), there is not much room to grow or increase your pay unless you are willing to wait 5-10 years to reach the "VP" level. Expect to be treated like a number, without the opportunity for differentiation or recognition, even if you make a compelling case for yourself. Your only opportunity to get a noticeable pay raise will be through promotions, which you will eventually top out on as noted above. Senior management has little interest in providing support to solve problems that could improve the business and resolve internal inefficiencies that actually impact clients. If you identify an issue and viable solution, prepare to be shot down if it requires any monetary/managerial/resource support or a tough conversation. Very reactive, slow to change, and conservative management that operates in a spreadsheet rather than a real world business. It seems management is more interested in maintaing the status quo internally and externally than actually improving things, as referenced above. Executives will say that the company has a wonderful culture, but nearly every employee beneath the Senior Vice President level is miserable and has almost no respect for senior management. Pretty high turnover - Company will tout that there is great average tenure among employees, but in reality there are ~25 people who heavily skew that statistic. Turnover is very common within 2-4 years for junior level employees, which can make project staffing and transitions a nightmare.

1.0
21 June 2017

Always a grind

Recommend
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Pros

Free drinks, relaxed dress code

Cons

As a lower level or even mid-level employee you'll be expected to sacrifice your social life for the benefit of Walker. It is not uncommon for APMs, PMs and SPMs to put in 50-60 hour weeks for a paltry salary. The work itself is not rewarding as you'll be consistently yelled at by clients and made to feel insignificant and replaceable by senior leadership. Also, I wouldn't recommend being a top performer as you'll be rewarded not with more money but with more work being dumped on your plate to make up for the less effective employees.

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