Towers Watson Reviews

I have been working at Towers Watson full-time

Pros – Good people here if you can find them but they have all left.
With the amount of people gone now, if you are a junior client consulting analyst you are able to go to client meetings in your first year, but is that really a good trade-off?

Cons – Your hard work is rewarded with more admin and coordination work. Most of your day is spent chasing people and writing up invoice summaries.
Juniors are expected to only do admin and billing for about 3-4 years until you make consultant. When you bring this up to managers, they only solidify that sentiment and ask you to be patient.
Low compensation.

Advice to Senior Management – Think about why your analysts are leaving.
Think about the business model, loyalty is not a business model in this paradigm shift.
There is a gap between all levels of employees. What you think works may not work for your junior tier.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Towers Watson full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Interesting work on lots of different kinds of projects

Cons – Long hours, pay doesn't seem to equal work put in

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Towers Watson full-time for more than a year

Pros – There are some very smart, very talented consultants who are fantastic teachers and can thrust your career forward
Abundance of training resources and materials
Plenty of special projects that are generally enjoyable and interesting

Cons – Good analysts are punished by receiving more work
If you're not working on the weekends, it's expected that your studying
lack of respect for study time
People who have failed the exam process or are not great workers are generally moved into people management roles (instead of consultants) where they continue to be 'not great'

Advice to Senior Management – Reward your best analysts with tangible benefits
Consider more goals than just billable hours for determining success (like if projects come in way under budget)
More stress on study schedules and 'exam time'

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Towers Watson as a contractor for less than a year

Pros – Best HR practice!
Great working environment

Cons – I honestly couldn't think of any.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good communication lines open.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Towers Watson full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great people - genuinely very clever; great IC, environment, collaborative, genuine , authentic and they live their values; long tenure;

Cons – Senior leadership very average; not terribly dynamic; risk averse; conservative and traditional; too much silo'd behaviour between lines of business (but gettting better at that)

Advice to Senior Management – Please retire and let some younger more dynamic people get on with it

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Towers Watson full-time for less than a year

Pros – Compensations, the great oportunities the company offers once the leader of the LOB accepts to promote them

Cons – The leader of the LOB was too busy to realize how much work the analysts were doing and the way they feel with this situation

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Towers Watson full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – * Large global firm with a respected name
* Opportunities in dozens of business-related functions
* Sprawling community that is active in giving back locally
* Decent opportunity for upward mobility

Cons – * Lack of communication between departments
* Normal struggles associated with merger still apparent several years later
* Inconsistent processes from office to office

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Towers Watson as an intern for less than a year

Pros – If you take initiative there is always interesting work to be done.
Great people, supportive managers.

Cons – Gets really busy sometimes - you can feel people are stressed.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Towers Watson full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great people - top quality associates who are highly engaged and take pride in their work.
Impressive book of business - many of the top Fortune 500 companies
Strong centralized support for intellectual capital development, senior leadership does a great job keeping an eye on the market and proactively acting on a changing benefits environment

Cons – Expectations of TW clients and Senior Management are high - this is a very fast paced environment and balancing work and life can sometimes be difficult (but not impossible). This job is not for everyone!

Advice to Senior Management – None

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Towers Watson as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great working environment, nice people, makes work more enjoyable

Cons – Needs a little more work life balance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend