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Tobias A. Dengel
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- "The people are amazing; extremely smart and talented while somehow maintaining their humility." (in 77 reviews)
- "The culture is great; the core values are taken seriously and are well thought out." (in 35 reviews)
- "I think the core values that were initially established are still a strong basis for us to hold ourselves and each other accountable as well." (in 26 reviews)
Cons
- "The layoffs were done poorly, and if the “employee experience executive” Kelli Palmer orchestrated it, she should be absolutely ashamed of how it went." (in 22 reviews)
- "aggressive postings and gives managers who lack strong communication and listening skills the tools to avoid face" (in 4 reviews)
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Updated Sept 19, 2023
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- 5.0Jun 22, 2022Product ArchitectCurrent Employee, less than 1 year
Pros
* Onboarding is excellent, there are so many programs directly at growth, both personally and professionally * The people -- everyone is welcoming and always willing to help * The office -- in a climate of 100% remote work or I resign, WIllowTree are doing it right in allowing people to bring themselves back to the office in the best possible way
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Tough to say at the moment, nothing comes to mind. A con for glassdoor: I'd like 6 stars for some of the ratings categories for this review.
WillowTree Response2yThx for the awesome review! - TD
- 1.0Jun 27, 2023Staff Software EngineerCurrent Employee
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Some very talented, dedicated individual contributors work here.
Cons
The company was acquired in January of this year, a decision that was allegedly ours in order to fuel growth. Since then, the amazing company culture that was once our incentive to work here despite below average industry pay has been completely reversed and is now hyper toxic. Firstly, layoffs were executed despite years of promises from leadership that this would never happen, and despite one of the stated purposes of the acquisition being to ensure financial security for the company. The executives have done absolutely nothing to rebuild this trust and don’t seem to realize that nobody now trusts any of their decisions or motives, and that they’re doing anything except trying to ensure that they all get even richer. Secondly, said layoffs were handled in the worst possible manner, with employees aware they were happening but waiting around for 3 hours watching their email to see if they’d been selected, in essence a mock execution. Hard to believe that anyone with basic human empathy, never mind experience running a company, thought this was a good idea. Leadership touts a “culture of feedback” but feedback from employees is not valued or listened to by senior leadership. In fact, growth-oriented feedback meant to help people get better is taken and weaponized against people who receive it. Nobody in middle or upper management cares about whether a good job is actually being done or whether we are being innovative, they only care about the appearance of doing a good job and covering themselves. The politics and Machiavellian backstabbing are horrible. Leadership thinks we are doing something unique and different here vs every other consultancy but we’re not, we’re just being paid less. If you want to work somewhere that people actually believe in what they’re doing and are building something cool, go work for a start up. If you want to work in a toxic environment with the threat of layoffs, go work in big tech, because at least you’ll have a massive paycheck and stock to help you sleep at night. I wouldn’t recommend working here. Many people like myself who survived the layoffs are looking for another job.
22WillowTree Response2moI am understand your frustration around the layoffs and I am sure you know it was absolutely the last thing we wanted to do. I accept and wear the criticism around the layoffs. However, I do disagree with the characterization of "toxic culture". Every company has issues they are working through, but all our internal feedback and even some of the most ardent criticism of our layoffs often refer to the extraordinary people and culture that has always been and always will be WillowTree.... - TD
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Know several people at willow tree. Great culture but pretty strict about in office days (unless hired for explicit remote role which is the minority)
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WillowTree has an overall rating of 3.0 out of 5, based on over 451 reviews left anonymously by employees. 44% of employees would recommend working at WillowTree to a friend and 36% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -34% over the last 12 months.
44% of WillowTree employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated WillowTree 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.1 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.
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A great company with solid culture and cool new HQ.