Wray Ward Reviews

- Salary is under market value. And advocating for a salary increase after starting is a futile effort. You will be underpaid here. - Health insurance is low quality. It covers very few actual medical emergencies and has an unreasonably high deductible. - PTO offered is 15 days/year and prorated based on start date. You are often guilted into breaking up PTO dates so not worth applying here if you want to take more than 3 days off at a time. - HIGHLY DYSFUNTIONAL management. More like micromanagement and overt favoritism. No use going to HR since they instigate drama with their gossip mongering and racist/ageist remarks. - Management is completely disconnected from employee needs and lack consistency in leadership. They mandated a back-to-office 3 days/week AFTER saying just two months prior that going in-office was based on dept needs. - This agency has a DE&I council yet doesn't respect diversity outside of "on paper."

Upper management was always preaching about company values and caring for Wray Ward employees, which looking back feels pretty untrue. They laid off nearly thirty employees in one day... completely out of nowhere. Many of those lay-offs occurred over Zoom while the employee was in the office and their boss was at home. The company leaders seemed to be devastated over the layoffs and the fact that the company couldn't afford to keep their employees, however, they continued to spend a great deal of money on company parties and cool gadgets for the office that served no purpose to the work environment.... like massage chairs and Metaverse VR goggles. They acted like they wanted to walk with these employees through the process of landing a new job, but provided little to no support in actuality. Upper management seems to care A LOT more about the image of the company than they do about actually cultivating a healthy culture that celebrates and values each employee. I hate to generalize all of the "higher-ups" because some of them were lovely, but most of them were pretty unauthentic.