WillowTree Reviews

Pros

Smart, talented, caring, fun people
Employees are valued and respected
Work-life balance is respected
Interesting work; interesting clients
Growth opportunities are abundant
Curiosity and continual learning highly promoted (1 class per year, plus ongoing innovation opportunities)
Core values encourage a high level of collaboration, trust, and respect
Fast growth but deliberate strategies to keep the culture

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing
Consider different organization structures

Pros

The best leadership I have ever seen, They are dynamic, democratic and truly care about employee's development. Very inclusive and transparent on promotion and salaries. You got to rotate between clients and projects therefore, learn new things and switch focus without changing company. Very good way to gain experience. Fast growing company thus a lot of opportunities to move up.

Pros

It is a supportive and colaborative work environment

Pros

Transparency is demonstrated well here - from open conversations to an open office layout to interviewing.

Process Improvement. No one is ready to settle. Everyone pitches in or takes initiative to make both day-to-day and long-term improvements happen. We are not afraid of change.

Employee work/life balance. Tobias (CEO, WillowTree) and Bezos (CEO, Amazon) both preach a common message that there is no such thing as work/life balance. If you love your job and your life and have a company that supports you, they ultimately blend so well together. We definitely experience flexibility from "work from home (as needed)" to flexible hours.

Growth. Think about what company has emphasized Recruiting/Branding over Sales/Biz Dev. This is rare! Caring about the people you hire will result in employees that excel in their role. Both Charlottesville and Durham are moving into much larger, and newer offices!

Personal Growth. We get Lunch and Learn every Wednesday where internal or external speakers will teach the company on a topic or project they're working on. This is followed by Innovation Hour where employees can drop everything they're working on and focus on Learning and Developing THEMSELVES. Furthermore you get a stipend annually to attend a conference, get a certification, etc to increase your skillset. Getting paid to make yourself better...amazing!

Project Teams & Inclusion. Employees sit in an open environment where their project teams and each project team is local to it's office (not spread out between offices). This drives communication and allows for employees to meet more than just employees in their domain of expertise. There are plenty of "groups" outside of the project teams that you can join for Diversity, Board Games, DIY, Meetup, etc...

Core Values. First company I've ever worked with that actually walks the talk and puts Core Values above anything else.

Advice to Management

Have the "hard to have" conversations with employees. Be personal, fair, and intentional with them. Set purposeful goals to accomplish and don't let anyone feel stuck in their role.

Pros

You constantly read about companies ‘caring about their employees’, Willowtree walks that talk.
The human aspect of Willowtree is what makes it so amazing. You come into work knowing you’re working with amazingly smart people and also some of the nicest.

Advice to Management

Thank you all for making Willowtree such a great place to work.

Pros

People are always willing to help out and listen to your ideas. Everyone is nice, helpful, smart, and they trust you to make good decisions. Leadership is open and willing to listen to how you think WillowTree can be a better place to work.

The employee resource groups are a really great support system. I'm able to be out at work and I'm really grateful to work here.

Pros

Everyone is so nice and supportive -- and smart. You're given a lot of autonomy and are allowed to do as you please. Also, cool client projects, and an exciting future for the company!

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you're doing. Focus on the people, and the rest will come.

Pros

- transparent and experienced leadership
- teams of highly-engaged, talented individuals who care about their craft
- a growing portfolio of big clients who trust us to do innovative things
- significant year-over-year growth that brings big new opportunities for everyone

Pros

- Free breakfast once/wk
- Free lunch twice/wk
- Lunch once/wk is supplemented with a presentation "lunch and learn"
- The other lunch is at a restaurant of your choice with your team
- Board game club (with dinner included for free)
- T-shirts, t-shirts, t-shirts (swag in general)
- Relaxed company attire and culture
- Project based teams
- Located in Charlottesville, VA (not a city)
- As many peer/supervisor one-on-ones as you want
- Monthly education budget
- Library of really good books
- 401K/HSA + 50% company match
- Stock options
- Standing/sitting desks + monitors + macbooks
- Work when you want, where you want, as long as its conducive to your team
- We hate "meetings"
- We are brain surgeons, not doctors, not waiters
- I'm constantly learning
- Company happy hours every Friday (yes, free alcohol)
- We have beer on tap, wine and sometimes hard liquor
- ERGs
- Recruiting rocks
- Company all hands biweekly
- Referral bonuses
- Transparent about pretty much everything

Advice to Management

- Keep doing what you're doing!

Pros

-Transparency from the exec team
-Extremely collaborative environment
-Plethora of knowledge that everyone is willing to share
-Celebrations of the positives, all the time
-Constant encouragement to try new things
-Core Values are not just something that were written and posted on the company's page. This is engrained in everyone's day-to-day activities

Advice to Management

Keep being real with everyone. It makes us want to stay.