Wyndham Worldwide Reviews

Pros

I enjoy the staff at my property.

Cons

My property hard to sell in this economy.

Advice to Senior Management

Staff the office appropriately

Pros

People are pretty friendly and experience given is good

Cons

NO entry level jobs. The ones they have available are always given to people who are unemployed and are overqualified for the job or are internal candidates (an intern is NOT seen as an internal candidate). HR keeps telling you about impossibly high level of interns getting jobs, but this is just not true. If you have no other option but to do this internship, that is fine, but do not rely on them to give you a job! In your junior year, try and get a different internship, so you can get a job offer sometime in your senior year. I guess it is OK if you are a freshman or sophomore, because the internship experience itself teaches you a lot, but so do a lot of other internships at other companies! You can network your backside off, from the greeter to the CEO, but there are no full time definite jobs that interns are seriously considered for.

Advice to Senior Management

There is no point in making the internship program itself awesome. The interns ultimately want a job at the end of the day. A fun program is all well and good, but unemployment and fear is not.

Pros

The benefits package, perks, laid back atmosphere that is hard to find in corperate America and great coworkers... Just to mention a few

Cons

Employees don't want to hear the political BS that management spits out on a daily basis. Promotions should not be given based on time served over performance. Management often makes the same promises to multiple employees without being able to back it up. HR s HORRIBLE at getting back to employees with questions.

Pros

Not much bureaucracy
Open to trying out new ideas
Good growth potential esp in NJ
Good track record with CEOs
Lots of in-house talent. Associates are SMEs in their areas and very committed.

Cons

Cross-departmental politics (same as everywhere else, no more, no less than other places)
Niche industry - Vacation Exchange
Industry impacted by credit freeze

Advice to Senior Management

Improve mobility across business units

Pros

HR department is very helpful and does lot for employees.
Free gym and good work life balance.

Cons

Senior level and mid-level IT management was not helpful, supportive or capable in dealing with employees and internal clients.
No appreciation, least challenging work or growth opportunities unless someone quits.

Advice to Senior Management

Let employees take more responsibility and trust them to do the job. Do not micro manage and sit on their heads.

Pros

Wyndham provides great benefits and a wide variety of job experience. The opportunity to learn, take on new challenges and really participate in a wide variety of projects makes the experience exciting and challenging. The company helps people grow and evolve to expand their knowledge base and grow within their career.

Cons

Timeshare is a negatively perceived industry and it is overloaded withe legal restrictions. The process of developing programs is challenging and frustrating. Wyndam has managed to prove to be extremely successful but, the company was forced to make major cuts in 2008 which left a very tense working environment. While times have improved and business is doing extremely well, the restructuring of 2008 is always present.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to have open communication with employees.

Pros

There are opportunities for personal growth if you are willing to relocate.

Cons

Some employee benefits are not availabe throughout the company.

Pros

Salespersons get their real estate licenses. Commissions on sales are high and there is a draw. Wyndham gets the potential clients for you to present Wyndham provides the sales materials needed. It is then your job to sell timeshares
The resorts are high quality. I own a Wyndham timeshare.

Cons

Selling timeshares is difficult so the turnover is very high, 80% turnove rI am told. I saw a lot of salespersons leave in a few months.

Pros

good place to work if you are a natural born saleshead with an up beat personality most all the time. if you can sell and you believe in the product you will make a good salary

Cons

always appeared to be a "good ol' boys club", so if you're a minority you can only go so far in this company. i only saw white males with the exception of 1 female in executive level management in my 7 year tenure

Advice to Senior Management

go back to the fun days of TrendWest, when staff loved coming to work, made great money and were encouraged to "above all have fun". There was a lot less stress then

Pros

-great work environment
-management cares for your achievments
-money driven job and pays well as long as you are producing the numbers

Cons

-tiring
-overwhelming
- to produce goals is not easy but not too hard either. You have to be always mentally ready

Advice to Senior Management

I believe the management team is hard working and caring about the sales reps around them. The more money you make the more money the make.