Western Union reviews

3.3

54% would recommend to a friend

(2,929 total reviews)
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Devin McGranahan

46% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Western Union has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,929 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Western Union employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Jan 29, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to grow international financial services experience. Lots of opportunity to move laterally and explore different areas of the business.

Cons

Company is going through a huge transition but without a well communicated vision of the future. A lot of the changes are to undo what the previous restructuring did. Management has no idea what it is doing. They are constantly talking about cutting costs but fail to waste money in the silliest things like unocuppied offices. Favoritism runs amock. No merit based promotions or pay. If you are friends with the right person you can get a pretty sweet upwards career track, otherwise, be happy to stay in your spot of move laterally non-stop. Not a good place for women right now. We used to have a lot of female VPs and above until early 2012. Not any more.

1.0
Jan 24, 2013

Four managers in one year

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Global Business Leader - Large Market Share - Do great work for the underserved around the world

Cons

- Yearly layoffs - Quarterly re-orgs - Unclear goals - Lack of executive leadership and vision - Highly regulated - Impossible to accomplish a goal - constant turnover and reorgs means you need to validate projects over and over - you can work a year on something and then swith leaders and all your work goes into the trash

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