A culture where everyone is nice but some people are just pretending out of social pressure.
Salary is below average and they keep reminding you that on top of that you get a free meal once a week and your internet/phone reimbursed.
The 'feedback' culture is really just for an outlet for your colleagues who disagree with you professionally or dislike you to make them temporarily feel better about their insecurities or their lack of professional success in their career (after all these years and all they know they just ended up at TW).
The social justice agenda is often hijacked by social extremists with a Stalin-esque approach to the middle ground. Any other viewpoint is shut down and classified anti social justice. But in reality all you have is a bunch of woefully unqualified people who lack the knowledge or know-how (don’t even get into intellectual abilities) to properly sift through the facts of an issue and properly weigh the pros and cons and merely reiterate the unchecked popular views of the far left. There’s another review which writes about being more comfortable being on client site than with TW people. I can certainly relate to that. I felt I need to be careful what I say or better not say much at all otherwise it’s misconstrued as un-pc. Expressing I don’t like a dish during a meal can be construed as racist!
In my first 3 months of being at the company I documented and counted the number of people who left by the farewell emails. It numbered 25. After that I gave up counting. This is roughly 10% of staff count in the region. If this fact is not clear, let me reiterate: 10% of staff leave every 3 months.
Some of the staff is full of unjustified hubris reciting stories of how bad some interviewees are (a favoured pastime is to recount how many people they knock back at interviews, the other is how they charge premium to clients because they’re just so smart even though staff are often assigned to project they have no clue about, after all the company makes money by the number of bodies) or how they’re better than their clients even client CTO. The reality is their clients are NOT the likes of Google, Tesla, SpaceX, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook or the like. Their clients are companies who are just aggregated slightly less knowledgeable than them. Not even that the reality is it’s the same people. Staff from client come to work for TW. TW staff leave to work for client. Not only that I have met more than one person who (admits) does not know how to code. After all the company earns by the number of bodies regardless of skill. The focus is on consulting skills rather than technical skills. It does not matter you cannot code, it matters more you’re good at consulting.
To be slightly faster than the slowest person in the race doesn’t say much at all about your abilities. It only shows the people who share this attitude are really just ignorant + insecure who need to repeat themselves this rhectoric to make themselves feel better.
