Wolverine World Wide Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Wolverine World Wide

Pros – They are a fair company with great opportunity

Cons – Multiple layers of management, sometimes difficult to penetrate these layers

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to offer up and comers opportunities to gro and learn

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Wolverine World Wide full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – There are a lot of nice, hard-working people getting the job done every day. Good product.

Cons – Patriarchal company that is not female friendly. Very few women in senior leadership roles. The few who are do not attempt to mentor other women to help them advance into senior leadership. Zero opportunity to advance career in central services areas of the company. Best opportunity is to work within one of the brands, but seeking to transfer from a central services area to a brand is discouraged and, I suspect, often sabotaged. Corporate values are words only, not embodied by senior leadership.

Advice to Senior Management – Seek to become more open to the personnel that perform the daily work that truly contributes to the success of the company. Seek to become approachable by staff at all corporate levels. Currently, the CEO does not even make eye contact or say hello when he passes less senior staff in the hallway.

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Wolverine World Wide full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good co-workers, laid back atmosphere, decent benefits

Cons – No vision insurance, hard to move up

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of the ME attitude, it takes a whole bunch of people below you to get the results you wanted.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Wolverine World Wide full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Good benefits for FT employees
Great discounts
Flexible hours

Cons – HR is a joke
New corporate management is horrible and out of touch with reality
No benefits for PT, even if they are part of management
Low pay compared to other companies with the same volume
Excessive contradictory changes

Advice to Senior Management – Please hire a real HR staff, the current one never listens to employees

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Wolverine World Wide full-time for more than a year

Pros – Friendly corporate employees who are easily accessible. The company offers unlimited sick days for salaried personnel. Competetive pay for high volume stores.

Cons – The company insults their employees by releasing quarterly earnings in the hundred millions of dollars and then only giving 2% raises. They do not provide enough payroll to support the volume of the stores. Lower volume stores work on single coverage most of the time, not allowing employees to take proper breaks. HR is too concerned with not having employees upset rather than doing what is right to run the business.

Advice to Senior Management – In order to get what you want from your teams and the colume you want from your stores you need to invest in provided all the tools necessary including appropriate payroll. $2800 in payroill for a store that does $38k a week is not nearly enough when half of that goes to the store manager and assistant.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Wolverine World Wide

Pros – Friendly Environment to Work in

Cons – Lack of transparency about things happening around

Advice to Senior Management – Value the talent that you have and that you can source. The company never make people, its the people who make the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Wolverine World Wide

Pros – Very large company that does a great job of promoting from within. Tremendous opportunity for those that are patient (5 year minimum). Some very sharp group and brand managers. Good place to learn. Grand Rapids (20 minutes away) is an up-and-coming town - safe, family friendly, great schools, etc.

Cons – Terrible pay unless you are a director or above. Limits on how large of a pay increase an individual can receive when promoted or changing jobs. Office environment is horrible, very boring. Plan to work (in office) from before 8 to 6 at least, unless you are part of "the club" and then you come and g as you please. Sr. executive team is not approachable and on the attack in meetings. A lot of dinosaurs that resist change. Very very political.

Advice to Senior Management – Easy opportunity to improve employee experience. Find something that sets WWW apart as far as perks for employees or the office environment. Certain competitors offer paid time off for volunteering, team building trips, 3:00 Fridays, work from home, etc. Do something to make the work experience fun.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Wolverine World Wide

Pros – WWW has over 100 year history in the footwear business, manufacturing and sales. The people who work for the company are incredibly nice and committed to the company. It has a good formula for financial success with a broad stable of brands and distribution in over 140 countries worldwide. It has relatively young senior management team that is introducing new ways of doing business.

Cons – The 100 year history also has resulted in entrenched, old-world business practices which are difficult to change organizationally. The company is located in Western Michigan, a beautiful, but remote area making it difficult to recruit top talent and a pain for business travel. Also, not a pool of diverse talent.

Advice to Senior Management – You are on the right track. Continue to drive standards and requirements high to build bench strength. Takes some risk: fund professional development and drive sales growth vs. control expenses. Work harder to build relationships w/customers and consumers alike.

Former Employee – worked at Wolverine World Wide

Pros – There is a vast opportunity to learn and bring about change. The management encourages change

Cons – The work culture is a little laid back, and a lot of people in the top management are not very supportive.

Advice to Senior Management – Try to motivate your workforce, and get rid of the strong headed people in the management who do not embrace change.

Current Employee – been working at Wolverine World Wide full-time for less than a year

Pros – collaborative, exciting and growing stronger daily

Cons – NA non that I can think of

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to have an open door policy

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