It’s a job - Senior Software Engineer WillowTree Employee Review

1.0
22 Oct 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The offer (or at least used too) remote positions.

Cons

I left WT a couple months ago. The environment was toxic, management wasn’t addressing any issues, and c-suite was pretending everything was going great. My breaking point was when one of my test engineers cried during a retro because of how terrible we were being treated by the client and how little WT cared. I was mad, this company had fundamental problems and I wanted to do something about it. Typically this is something you don’t feel comfortable doing because there could be repercussions, but since I was leaving, it didn’t matter. I went to my managers, I went to c-suite, and talked for over an hour about how WT needs to improve. How we are treated terrible by clients, how we get no support from WT, how c-suite feels out of touch, how the culture has died and to quit using us as a selling point, how we don’t get paid enough, how we haven’t received raises in 2 years, how we are not a boutique one stop shop for software anymore and are almost purely staff augmentation, how we as developers feel like a cog in the machine and we have no say into anything, how we get told to just “make the client happy”, how we get told to work nights and weekends because WT overcommitted and didn’t care to listen to the developers saying for months that we are not going to hit that deadline…. This is my experience, the toxicity I experienced everyday was 100% not worth the ~120k I was paid. I worked way too hard for a company that does not care about me for not enough pay. I left WT for another corporation that has issues, but it’s not toxic, and they pay me almost 100k more. WT is not a great place to work anymore, heck it’s not ever a good place to work. Don’t waste your time here, they wont change and you’ll just end up miserable.

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Pros

Lots of really nice, and smart people who are very collaborative and excited to share their knowledge. This is not a prestigious place to work, so I was a bit surprised by just how smart and competent people are at WillowTree or TELUS Digital, whatever our name is. The offices are great and the office culture is ridiculously good. Huge shoutout to the employees (it's def not upper management) who go out of their way to make the office culture great. Depending on what project you're on, it can be a pretty chill place to work. If you're early in your career and need experience, the variety of projects makes this a genuinely good opportunity.

Cons

The biggest con is the compensation. It's so terrible, and far below the industry standard that I don't really see how anyone could stay here long term. They don't give raises, no one is getting promotions. There's also quite a lot of restructuring going on, and very poor communication about it. Which is par for the course in the tech industry at this point, but worth noting. It feels relatively stable for now, but I really have trouble seeing how their tech services division is going to survive as AI decreases the cost to build software. Plus, tech services as part of TELUS Digital doesn't really make any sense long term. It's a contact center business with a bunch of people that randomly make expensive mobile apps? It seems to be making enough money for now to keep going, but I feel like that could change any moment.

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