Great place to waste your potential - Anonymous employee WillowTree Employee Review

1.0
Aug 23, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you are in a pinch and need a job with benefits, and can pass their interview process, sure, go for it

Cons

This place is a total dumpster fire of execs that have no idea how to manage a business and a director level that’s 100% unable to change a thing. I spent way too much time of my life here consistently working well over 40hr a week delivering for one of our toughest clients for essentially nothing. And in the highest inflationary environment in over 20 years this company refused to raise salaries one bit. Health care costs up. All other costs up. WillowTree? “We don’t have the budget.” Thanks for being a sucker and thinking your loyalty and driving client success would be rewarded. Their stock? In the toilet as AI eats their lunch and they play around with whatever the heck FuelIX is. And now TELUS put in an offer to buy the whole thing back. Execs? Half of them were grandfathered in from the WillowTree days and couldn’t manage their way out of a paper bag. Good riddance. I don’t know what this place is going to look like in 3 years but I’m also not interested in sticking around to find out

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Cons

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3.0
May 29, 2026
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Pros

Lots of really nice, and smart people who are very collaborative and excited to share their knowledge. This is not a prestigious place to work, so I was a bit surprised by just how smart and competent people are at WillowTree or TELUS Digital, whatever our name is. The offices are great and the office culture is ridiculously good. Huge shoutout to the employees (it's def not upper management) who go out of their way to make the office culture great. Depending on what project you're on, it can be a pretty chill place to work. If you're early in your career and need experience, the variety of projects makes this a genuinely good opportunity.

Cons

The biggest con is the compensation. It's so terrible, and far below the industry standard that I don't really see how anyone could stay here long term. They don't give raises, no one is getting promotions. There's also quite a lot of restructuring going on, and very poor communication about it. Which is par for the course in the tech industry at this point, but worth noting. It feels relatively stable for now, but I really have trouble seeing how their tech services division is going to survive as AI decreases the cost to build software. Plus, tech services as part of TELUS Digital doesn't really make any sense long term. It's a contact center business with a bunch of people that randomly make expensive mobile apps? It seems to be making enough money for now to keep going, but I feel like that could change any moment.

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