Great to start, but not to stay - Pension Analyst WTW Employee Review

2.0
Jan 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- A great jumping off point for a career and learning a general feel of the office atmosphere, albeit remote. Good for resumé building

Cons

- Underpaid and overworked; the incentive to stay is because you're simply too busy to leave. You need to rack up billable client hours all year at an unrealistic pace, forcing you to stack PTO, which you will need to purge at EOY if you have a surplus of hours that can't be rolled over - Having to work at a breakneck pace invokes error, but, internal systems have a bizarre tendency to DELIBERATELY remove correct inputs for data that you enter, bogging down one's own integrity and seemingly compromising credibility no matter how many times you review your own work - In my experience, most everyone was too busy and out for themselves. If you need remedial assistance with tasks, senior team members let you die on the vine making you assume that you're doing everything correctly while your billable hours suffer; those with longer tenure answer your questions with more questions - Forcing employees to train outsourced labor on day-to-day tasks. This is either to move you up ever so slightly in the form of reviewing their work, or to force you out of your own job in the interest of cost-cutting

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