WTW reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(8,044 total reviews)
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Carl Hess

84% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

WTW has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 8,044 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WTW employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
Sep 26, 2016

Awful, just awful

Anonymous employee
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Pros

None that can justify the unhealthy, unethical, and low quality work environment.

Cons

For a company that provides Human Resources consulting services (Towers Watson) the HR "gurus" that they have in house should attempt to fix the broken communication channels, the incompetent and unethical managers, and the teams that strive on bullying and infernizing the lives of those that want to perform well, grow, and do a great job. The Human Resources area is literally non-existent, completely broken, and not with your trust. The Legal and Compliance areas are inept (at best) and have no clue on what their doing. Most senior managers have been grandfathered into their roles and there's no room for growth unless you are a family member or get along with someone in senior management. Slow-to-a-halt processes that lead to no results. Deplorable tools, cheap approaches to everything and bad benefits.

3.0
Sep 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility on work hours, downtown location, everyone works fairly independently and plenty of online training opportunities if you initiate it yourself (but may need to do it on your own time or work longer hours)

Cons

Slow career progression, poor performance management structure, monotonous work and environment, no cross-department training, hiring externally for senior level positions rather than promoting from within and training employees to advance

1.0
Aug 12, 2015

Dead end job

Recommend
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Pros

This is a lifeboat job--great for people desperate for work, or for semi-retired people, or people who only need to work six months out of the year and are happy to make a boatload of money for their employers while earning peanuts for themselves.

Cons

There is no incentive for advancement. No one outside of senior management, even those who are permanent employees, can make much more than $40,000 per year. I was released for two months after eighteen months of continuous employment so they could reset the clock and keep me as a temp to avoid having to pay benefits. All promotions within the company are lateral--supervisors make no more than rank-and-file benefit advisors. Training is inadequate, cronyism is rampant, and each year it gets worse. The business model that might have worked for this company six or eight years ago doesn't work now. More than half of the workforce for this season will be completely inexperienced and/or marginally qualified, which will put more strain on supervisors and cause more negative customer service issues. They will hire anyone with a pulse who can pass the insurance exam, without taking into account the essential qualities needed for a call center rep, most notably literacy and the ability to speak clearly and articulately, in a professional manner, and with courtesy and empathy.

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