Tech Data Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Tech Data full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Tech data is a good company to work for, the benefits are good although compensation is below market value. Sales have decreased significantly because many customers are unhappy with the new SAP implementation and have taken their business else where, the expectation is that Tech Data will survive but not without more cut backs and layoff's in the near future

Cons – The IT Department is a dysfunctional organization, constant battles with other teams just to achieve a simple task or achieve common goals, serious politics run rampant, professionalism does not exist at any level, a lot of useless finger pointing with the common phase "It's not my fault". Senior IT management has no clue how to manage people except to threatening their jobs and protect their favorites, you'll work hard and long hours and receive little in return. I foresee more layoffs than the 10 that occurred this week in IT alone, some loyal people with more than 20 years of dedicated service with the company were sent packing, definitely no loyalty for those that have worked hard over many years to make Tech Data what it is today.

Advice to Senior Management – Get a clue, listen to your people and value loyalty, experience and skills.

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

Former Employee – worked at Tech Data full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – TD is really good at training employees. They have an excellent tutuition reimbursement program. They do a great job at following a succession planning program.

Cons – This is one company that specializes on manager churning. Instead, of working to develop they believe in throat slashing. This is really detremental to the associates and inhibits the change process or any process from moving forward.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tech Data

Pros – Benefits are ok, some good people there as far as coworkers.

Cons – Slim chance of advancement, some mgt has their favorites and shows it openly, company does not show loyalty to low level employees, hr is no help at all, as one reviewer stated, be careful you will be eventually be ran over by a bus. somewhat of a good place to start but don't stay too long if no advancement. If the executives would really listen to lower level employees input this would be as great place to work.

Advice to Senior Management – Executives should really listen to lower level employees input on mid-level mgt. Show loyalty to long term employees, improve HR, let job rotation be optional, STOP promoting low level employees to mgt with no mgt exp or people skills. Promote based on job performance and longevity not based off being the mgts favorite person on the team. Respect, Respect Respect goes a long way. Let lower level employees decide what the CMI should be based off of mgt's performance this might improve how mid-level mgt treats their team.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tech Data

Pros – Tech Data has some of the best people to work with in the Tampa Bay area. The difficulties with the newer management in the company has been detrimental in keeping key employees.

Cons – Poor management. Management positions are filled with people without the basic understanding of their job. They also lay-off their seasoned employees to back fill with cheaper employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Tech Data has some great employees that are more than qualified to hold key management positions. Tech Data's policy is to promote or hire management based on years of school completed, regardless of the type of degree. They have actually hired management with no work experience over employees with several years experience.

Former Employee – worked at Tech Data

Pros – Decent salary, OK benefits on-site gym.

Cons – IT pros beware. Layoffs. Offshoring. Very high management turnover.

Advice to Senior Management – Close the revolving door in IT management. No one likes a new boss every 6 months.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tech Data

Pros – The previous review hit the nail on the head. It's a paycheck. Big company, so you can always find people you like and enjoy working with. It's good if you like a monotonous workplace. A negative to some, to be sure, but it is nice to always know what you're going to get. There are very few surprises.

Cons – For some reason a decent percentage of lower and mid-level management seem to be poorly suited for the job. My manager was friendly and positive, but clueless as to how I did my job. The pay is okay, but opportunities for advancement aren't as plentiful or fairly rewarded as you'll be told in the interview.

There are A LOT of meetings and I swear I've been to meetings to discuss if there were too many meetings.

It's not a bad place to work, but it really is a gray cubicle environment and that wore on me over time. When I put in my two weeks I had about half to 75% of the people I work with admit they hated their jobs and couldn't wait to go somewhere else.

Advice to Senior Management – Look for managers with a high quit rate below them. There's probably a reason.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tech Data

Pros – Decent place to work if you have little or no prior experience and need as much per hour as possible. Fairly recession proof it seems.

Cons – Little or no room for advancement, especially without a degree of some kind -- no matter what kind of experience you may have. Little to no incentive for best effort and/or high level of quality in your job. Keep your head down and work to the lowest possible expectation, and even then, if you've been there too long and make too much they will find a reason to replace you with someone who they can hire to work for less money than you.

Advice to Senior Management – Middle management is a farce. The company talks about high level of standard and working to people's best ability, but instead it seems like middle management wants to work people harder to make up for lack of quality.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tech Data full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Learn basic selling of over 100 vendor lines

Cons – Pay your best and hard working employees.
Lack of recognition to their best employees.
Does not allow BYOD - Really? In this day in age?
Technology company that uses outdated technology for internal use.
The only company I work for where Year over Year your paycheck gets smaller.
Strict and controlling company.

Advice to Senior Management – Take care of your best employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tech Data

Pros – Benefits, Accumulating sick time, Holiday Pay, Personal Days, Opportunity to participate in Intramural Sports

Cons – Lack of communication between management and employees, Inability to successfully run a logistic center by managers, Poor poor poor poor raises, Greedy senior managers

Advice to Senior Management – If you want to really be a successful company, invest in your employees. Employees should not be afraid to voice their opinions.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Tech Data

Pros – Decent benefits packages that can be affordable including the return of the partial 401k match. There are many nice people and working with a good team made it a generally nice place to be.

Cons – People are Nita's smart as they think they are. Low salaries make it difficult to draw from the world-wide talent that is out there.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on trining pope from the beginning, so that everyone is on the same age and working twrd achieving the same goal.