Tech Data Reviews

Pros

Good place to work at

Cons

Long hours sometimes need occasionallly

Pros

great enviroment- good benefits. Excellent place to get experience and start carreer.

Cons

Not many high paying positions exist. starting careers at tech data is great, but not very much opprotunity with in to grow.

Advice to Senior Management

leaders come from outside, would be better to offer opprotunity to existing employees. This would allow employees to not only be able to start their career, but to grow with in the company.

Pros

convienant to home, great excuse for not having a home life, bonuses to Sr. management, no two days ever the same.

Cons

narcissistic micromanagment, a technology company using antiquanted technology, lack of communication from corprate down and director down, company value statement is not worth the paper it is printed on.

Advice to Senior Management

Managment by this weeks trend, then next weeks trend does not establish trust in managment or stability, constant smiling faces do not equate to happy employees.

Pros

Great place to learn how not to treat employees
Great place to learn the distribution and logistics business
Great place to start your career - but don't stay too long

Cons

Sr. Leadership doesn't the path of desctruction they are leaving behind. They take hourly employees for granted and use people to do their dirty work.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't take employees and lower level managers for granted, they are your assets, not your door mats. They can help make the company succeed or fail.

Pros

great people, great teams, good environment. awesome place to get your career started and gain experience in the industry but long term, 5+ years, you should plan for other places.

Cons

very high traffic area, you need to get there 30 min before or else the entire area turns in to a parkinglot with all the other 30 companys in the area letting their 9-5'ers go. due to the low turn over rate in management, promotions are very seldom.

Advice to Senior Management

make changes that will have greater impact internally to make employees feel recognized rather than just a few good words about their hard work.

Pros

I was offered the opportunity to carry out an internship within one of Tech Data's business units. The place is like a revolving door, with a high turnover rate within every department you look at. My boss was only two months into his position when I joined, and he delegated the task of overseeing my work to a young lady who had been there for a little over ten months, and she was already considered a senior employee by their standards!

I interacted with several people at several levels, ranging from highly self-disciplined professionals to not-so-talented rif raf.

This is an ok place for networking. An advantage of working for TD is that you happen to be up to date with latest trends of the market. A con is that if you don't have the vision, you may end up stuck there spinning your wheels forever.

Cons

One big con is the attitude of management. I got the sense that they were not up to the challenge. My boss never sat down with me, and all I received was his total indifference, from the beginning to the end. There wasn't even common courtesy or politeness. Very rude guy. Once I finished my internship I got a much better offer from much better and decided to move on, a career is too much of a precious asset to let it stall like that.

Advice to Senior Management

The CEO is a very nice guy, as much as some other members of senior management, but that is not enough. They need to re-connect with reality, and be aware that the reason things are not working is the human factor. Their best people is fleeing and they are being replaced it with mediocre managers.

Pros

Still employed. Compensation and perks from the VENDORS but little from Tech Data.

Cons

Short staffed, low pay, overworked under appreciated. High management turn over. Little or no opportunity for a promotion. They are off shoring jobs to Costa Rica.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a clue! You are losing good people left and right and trying to replace them with hourly paid temps so you can keep your bonus.

Pros

The team and family culture is what makes this place a good company to work for if it is your first job. They train you and give you the resources to be successful.

Cons

The pay is not very good. it is below industry standards. They are not a great company for career advancement as most people who move up are very close to management.

Advice to Senior Management

Work on increasing pay and give people the opportunity to advance.

Pros

progressive company that always stays on or above the trends

Cons

like anywhere, if you get a manager who isn't supportive, you need to look elsewhere in the company or outside the company

Advice to Senior Management

make sure your managers are knowledgeable about the department and skills of the team in that department

Pros

Executive leadership was good; very friendly

Cons

Immediate management team will not support growth if they do not agree

Advice to Senior Management

Improve and be forward with career growth