Western Union reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(2,930 total reviews)
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Devin McGranahan

49% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Western Union has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 2,930 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Western Union employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Aug 19, 2016

Stagnant

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Corporate headquarters is conveniently located for commuting purposes if you have a family and don't have need to live in downtown Denver. Other than that, there's not a whole lot of positives.

Cons

Lack of innovation means that the Western Union is just holding onto its market share in a business that will soon disappear. The vast majority people who use Western Union services are poor people, immigrants, citizens of developing countries, etc. With more countries getting better internet service, improved online banking, crack down on terrorism/money laundering/drug trafficking/sex trafficking usage of cash wiring, Western Union is the major player in a massive but dying business.

3.0
Jul 13, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Average Pay -Known Brand/Company -Work from home for some positions

Cons

1- BUREAUCRACY 2- Conservative 3- Difficult to Advance unless you work in Denver HQ's 4- Always working on improvements while never delivering on the improvements If you pay close attention to the official responses on Glassdoor reviews you will notice they only respond and thank to the positives one. That is a huge clue. They don't like nor they know how to handle criticism.

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Western Union Response
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Thanks for your review. We appreciate the feedback. While positive reviews are the easiest to respond to, we agree that providing responses to critical reviews are just as important, if not more so. Since the time of your review, we've made sure to pay more attention to the balance of our review responses. Regarding the specifics of your review, we acknowledge that at Western Union (WU), as with any large, global brand, there is some degree of complexity (and yes, at times, even bureaucracy) to the company. We're sorry your experience with WU wasn't ideal. We are committed to continuous improvement and are proud of the strides we have taken as a company over the last year, which we feel have helped address some of your concerns: • Implementation of the GPS (Guide. Perform. Succeed) management approach, which has shifted more ownership for performance to the micro-team level, and has put a much stronger emphasis on frequent alignments between leaders and their teams regarding things like priorities, performance and career development. This approach has been very well received. • You're right that we’ve invested heavily in technology and other improvements, and the process of innovation can take time to bear fruit, but 2016 has been an exciting year for us as products such as WU Connect (enabling third-party integrations with WU’s platform through APIs) and WU EDGE (our ground-breaking, cloud-based B2B payment platform) have been launched and/or expanded. We have also been hard at work expanding our global portfolio of mobile apps. Thanks again for your review. Best wishes in your future endeavors.
2.0
Jun 15, 2016

... It's paved with good intentions.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are many people in this company who care greatly about their work. They want to do a good job for themselves and for their customers. The goals and vision of the leadership are on the right track.

Cons

HQ in Denver has limited understanding of this division and add huge layers of bureaucracy, despite repeated acknowledgement that this is a problem. Cost cutting in the name of efficiency has led to MASSIVE degradation of internal knowledge of existing systems/technology and process. Within the division, execution is abysmal. Partially due to resource constraints and partially as a lingering effect of brain-drain, ever-shrinking areas of responsibility leave too many gaps for important work to fall through.

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