Arrow Electronics Reviews in Denver, CO Area

Pros

Opportunity to grow, respect, diginity and smart co-workers. Flexible work environment and good support from higher management. what else you need ?

Cons

Arrow should invest more in its brand value. Not all your friends will know about Arrow when you start but it is better than some of other jobs out there that have more visibility if you wanna keep moving from one job to another :)

Pros

Good pay and benefits, great Denver location, lower levels within Arrow are friendly and cordial. Can't really thing of any other good things.

Cons

Upper management is arrogant, undisciplined, and brutal, and it flows freely downhill. No sign of a cogent strategy to address a broken business plan. Employees take the brunt of disappointing quarterly results in the form of layoffs. Other than that - its great!

Advice to Senior Management

At this point I really don't know. Perhaps seek a merger with one of Arrow's more nimble competitors. Don't assume that continual layoffs are a strategy.

Pros

Pay is pretty good and benefits are as good as most Fortune 500's. I can't really think of anything else to include in "pro's"

Cons

I'm pretty disappointed in what I've experienced with Arrow. I've been treated fairly and my immediate management is pretty competent; but the company overall is disappointing. This is largely my fault. I should have done much more in depth research about Arrow, the competition, and future prospects for the company. I thought I was getting into a "technology company". Instead, I found an old-line warehousing and distribution company with a deteriorating business position.

Advice to Senior Management

You have a lot of under-utilized talent with your lower level employees. Try to use this resource to add more value for your customers.

Pros

Location is right off the highway, employees are very friendly (but isn't everyone in Colorado??), currently improving technology, lots of new employees - so you won't feel alone.

Cons

Pay is fairly low unless you come in at Directors level or above. Benefits are just okay. Management will fire/layoff employees easily - most people are new and now I know why. NO DIVERSITY in upper management, nor does the company care. No bells & whistles (well depends on which building they stick you in) no gym, no cafeteria, no on-campus events/guest speakers. Managers track everything; vacation, sick time, holidays..you name it - not flexible at all.

Advice to Senior Management

More onsite training/lectures for employees (no more web-based training). Establish diversity initiatives. Pay people what they are worth. Implement flexible work schedules.

Pros

Most of the people are great, they work hard and take pride in doing a good job for the company and for the reseller customers.

Cons

Layoffs are a regular event, and have little or nothing to do with sales or job performance. It never feels safe, even if you are doing everything right. Might be politics, or it might be that the employees are simply numbers that the company feel can be easily replaced.

Advice to Senior Management

Your sales and finance teams are the face of the company to the reseller customers. The revolving door is frustrating for the customer, and revenues can take a hit as a result.

Pros

-Slim margins means politics are minimized for the sake of making the right business choices
-Employee empowerment is common.
-Flexible time-off policies
-No-nonsense culture
-Base salaries are competitive

Cons

-Slim margins means purchases are highly scrutinized--adequate office furniture, computers, but certainly not cutting edge.
-Work in the high-tech industry but has an antiquated compensation policy. No bonuses for employees under director level, paltry 401(k) match has long vesting period, no Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), no stock options below director level.
-Has few company holidays.

Advice to Senior Management

I truly enjoy the working for Arrow Electronics. Management has an understanding of where they want the company to be and has plans to get there. But... get with the times. Compensate those that actually do the work.

Pros

Hands off management style allows flexibility in job.

Cons

Leadership is seemingly interested in retirement vs. making the company better. Someone has to die or leave in order for you to get promoted.

Advice to Senior Management

Clean house, new blood, new concepts - challenge the status quo.

Pros

they offer decent vacation compared to other companies. they do acquire smaller companies to gain customers. they are expanding into Asia.

Cons

they will support outsourcing their IT positions to people who cannot do the job needed. they will look only at the cost savings in the short term instead of long term IT support domestically.. they have lost a lot of knowledgeable people in their IT groups, in trade for India cheapness.

Advice to Senior Management

Do not get rid of your IT groups! if India must be used, please use them for nighttime or afterhours support. we've lost too many good people and much experience.

Pros

company is relatively stable financially; compensation is surprisingly good, benefits are OK; if you like drudgery and a pressure-cooker environment, Arrow is for you!

Cons

clueless management; all blame flows downhill, all credit for successes stop at your manager's door; while the company's finances are stable, the future looks grim - not the kind of place where a young person wants to stay.

Advice to Senior Management

stop blaming your employees for short-comings in your strategy. consider recognizing hard-working, non-management employees; look for a strategy other than cost-cutting.

Pros

40 hours a week ("salary" + commission based), possible to not take work home at night (baggage) if you can not let things bother you, excellent benefits (401K, Health, etc).

Cons

Upper management seems to have no idea when they roll out changes how it will effect their employees (no idea what we do or how much we do), general lack of financial care for the well being of their employees (cost of living wage increases, merit, etc), and glass ceiling with regard to career advancement unless you play the corporate roll.

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership seems to not have the best interest of their employees as a priority.