Awful, just awful - Anonymous employee WTW Employee Review

1.0
Sep 26, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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.

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Pros

Great people who excel in their field and enjoyable to work with; good benefits and compensation; good feedback systems

Cons

a little too much email from corporate staff

3.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

Paycheck is great, people to work with are generally very intelligent, positive and professional. Many positions are work from home or at least hybrid. Continuous learning is encouraged. Since the company is technically British, it is very inclusive and has several networks to ensure inclusion (although some such as the menopause support group are UK based which isn't surprising as the US doesn't typically care about such things though they should).

Cons

The workload is often insane to put it mildly. You are expected to sort of "do everything". When you are encouraged to speak up if you have too much work, they pretty much tell you "well you just have to figure out how to get it done because we have to give you more work". There is blatant favoritism. Those who are liked are praised for giving detailed answers on calls and granted a month off of PTO while those not as well liked get grilled when they ask for one day off and are told "not to overthink" when they try to provide detailed answers.

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