Tech Data Reviews

I have been working at Tech Data

Pros – Great place to learn how not to treat employees
Great place to learn the distribution and logistics business
Great place to start your career - but don't stay too long

Cons – Sr. Leadership doesn't the path of desctruction they are leaving behind. They take hourly employees for granted and use people to do their dirty work.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't take employees and lower level managers for granted, they are your assets, not your door mats. They can help make the company succeed or fail.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Tech Data

Pros – convienant to home, great excuse for not having a home life, bonuses to Sr. management, no two days ever the same.

Cons – narcissistic micromanagment, a technology company using antiquanted technology, lack of communication from corprate down and director down, company value statement is not worth the paper it is printed on.

Advice to Senior Management – Managment by this weeks trend, then next weeks trend does not establish trust in managment or stability, constant smiling faces do not equate to happy employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Tech Data

Pros – I was offered the opportunity to carry out an internship within one of Tech Data's business units. The place is like a revolving door, with a high turnover rate within every department you look at. My boss was only two months into his position when I joined, and he delegated the task of overseeing my work to a young lady who had been there for a little over ten months, and she was already considered a senior employee by their standards!

I interacted with several people at several levels, ranging from highly self-disciplined professionals to not-so-talented rif raf.

This is an ok place for networking. An advantage of working for TD is that you happen to be up to date with latest trends of the market. A con is that if you don't have the vision, you may end up stuck there spinning your wheels forever.

Cons – One big con is the attitude of management. I got the sense that they were not up to the challenge. My boss never sat down with me, and all I received was his total indifference, from the beginning to the end. There wasn't even common courtesy or politeness. Very rude guy. Once I finished my internship I got a much better offer from much better and decided to move on, a career is too much of a precious asset to let it stall like that.

Advice to Senior Management – The CEO is a very nice guy, as much as some other members of senior management, but that is not enough. They need to re-connect with reality, and be aware that the reason things are not working is the human factor. Their best people is fleeing and they are being replaced it with mediocre managers.

I have been working at Tech Data

Pros – Still employed. Compensation and perks from the VENDORS but little from Tech Data.

Cons – Short staffed, low pay, overworked under appreciated. High management turn over. Little or no opportunity for a promotion. They are off shoring jobs to Costa Rica.

Advice to Senior Management – Get a clue! You are losing good people left and right and trying to replace them with hourly paid temps so you can keep your bonus.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Tech Data

Pros – progressive company that always stays on or above the trends

Cons – like anywhere, if you get a manager who isn't supportive, you need to look elsewhere in the company or outside the company

Advice to Senior Management – make sure your managers are knowledgeable about the department and skills of the team in that department

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Tech Data

Pros – Executive leadership was good; very friendly

Cons – Immediate management team will not support growth if they do not agree

Advice to Senior Management – Improve and be forward with career growth

I worked at Tech Data

Pros – Great benefits, work/life balance, growth opportunity. There really are some great managers and Clearwater campus is very diverse. The company puts considerable thought into employee events and internal communications.

Cons – Lots of layoffs, instability, have to leave and come back to really succeed.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Tech Data

Pros – Great culture and management. Great place to work. I learned a lot about management and training. Does an excellent job preparing their employees for their job specific tasks. Easy environment and management does not micromanage

Cons – Low pay, definitely needs a boost

Advice to Senior Management – Pay your workers more, will get more talent

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Tech Data

Pros – Tech Data has some of the best people to work with in the Tampa Bay area. The difficulties with the newer management in the company has been detrimental in keeping key employees.

Cons – Poor management. Management positions are filled with people without the basic understanding of their job. They also lay-off their seasoned employees to back fill with cheaper employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Tech Data has some great employees that are more than qualified to hold key management positions. Tech Data's policy is to promote or hire management based on years of school completed, regardless of the type of degree. They have actually hired management with no work experience over employees with several years experience.

I have been working at Tech Data

Pros – Management is great about balancing work and personal. There are great perks depending upon the vendor you are aligned with and there are many opportunities to hone your professional skills (i.e. Presentations, travel, etc). The benefits package is pretty decent, you receive a weeks pay from day one, health benefits at 90 days, discounted profit sharing, and 401K matching. Most companies out there are still cutting back on benefits and it was nice that TD brought them back.

Cons – Upper management seems disconnected with what is actually needed from middle management. There are many teams that seem to be underwhelmed and many that are overwhelmed. It seems that this could be better balanced so none are left shorthanded.

Advice to Senior Management – Make investments in the company IT infrastructure and the support teams so that you don't pay a PSC $50K a year to process orders.