Arrow Electronics reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(2,555 total reviews)
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Bill Austen

59% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Arrow Electronics has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,555 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arrow Electronics employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufactura industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Mar 14, 2016

They're ok..

Recommend
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Pros

Seem like a decent company but hard to tell..

Cons

Very fragmented makes internal movement or development difficult and confusing.

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Arrow Electronics Response
9y
Thank you for taking the time to write us a review about your current experience(s) at Arrow. We actually are seeking to improve our organizational structure this year through taking inventory of all of our job profiles. Once this is completed, we hope to create a structure that allows our workforce to see how to move either cross-functionally or upwards. We appreciate your patience as we roll out this change, and thank you for your dedication to Arrow all these years!
3.0
Mar 10, 2016

My OCS Impression

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Large company has its employee benefits advantage. The product breadth and industry recognized name makes doing business easy.

Cons

The company does not step up. They react to market trends slowly. When Arrow really wants to move on a new technology, it is after the new technology has taken off. Arrow misses the advanced higher technology partnerships that breed creativity and leading edge, not bleeding edge, technology to empower it other customers.

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Arrow Electronics Response
9y
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Arrow - we appreciate you taking some time to highlight us as an employer! As a technology services provider, we understand that technology is advancing rapidly and it's important to keep up, however, it's also important to find a balance between and practical and the possible. Appreciate your contributions to our mutual successes!
2.0
Feb 26, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you play the political game you're fine. You can have a long and stable career. Coming in you can even get almost market compensation and a benefits package. Once you're in, As a software engineer, I found that if you have no ambition to grow within your field, and don't mind working about four to seven years behind the times, you will be fine and have a long career on cruise control.

Cons

Pay is always below market - unless you're a new hire. Then they don't pay above market, they try to sell you on stability. It's a fear tactic. And honestly, there is no stability. If you kiss up to the right people, the right way, there is some stability. But make no mistake. Arrow does not profit from innovation. They profit from cost cutting. And you are nothing more than a line item on a budget. They would rather hold on to their (as I once heard a manager say) "Indentured Servants from India" who they VASTLY underpay and overwork, holding their work visas over their heads, than hold on to you. Even if you show you are highly skilled and prove your work ethic. They'll compliment you. But you will not be rewarded with market value compensation. Your new-hire offer will be the best your compensation does versus market value your entire tenure at Arrow. As a developer, do not hope to introduce modern ideas anytime soon. Even external customer tools and web technology stacks are decided in favor of "one platform" which actually complicates what should be simple and keeps their talent working in technology and methodologies that are years behind. Do not expect to leave Arrow with a lot of market-valuable skills. Expect to find a transitional job where you can get back up to date first. Even contracting positions using the web technology stacks that ECS IT uses pays at about 75% of what the market bears for current web technology rates per hour. A great indicator: In 2010 the corporate standard browser was IE7. Until Microsoft officially ended support for IE7, Arrow refused to change until forced. IE8 was still the corporate standard browser in 2014!!!!! Until 2012, as a WEB developer, I was forbidden to install Firefox or Chrome on my computer without special permission and management from IT helpdesk. Working in ECS IT is an absolutely morale-killing, career-damaging, innovation-vacuum. Management is in the business of keeping people in line and low-cost. The most talented people I was around were very unhappy but afraid that the economy made job-hopping out of something "secure" undoable (this is part of design - a lot of Arrow's message at company townhall meetings is one of Arrow keeping the world employed during tough times). Or they were talented people from India whose work visas held them to Arrow.

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