Working at Avnet in San Antonio, TX: 5 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in San Antonio, TX Area

"Leadership is a problem. Friends are promoted instead of the right individuals, leading to a stagnant thinking leadership team where they just keep repeating past mistakes over and over. Bad management isn't dealt with, they just shuffle them to a new department to be the leader."

"Good, hardworking employees will get cut before mediocre management will"

What do you like about working at Avnet?

"My peers & co-workers on the sales floor. The ones doing the real work."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If your going in to HW sales it takes about a year to ramp up. Training is non existent so have some type of knowledge of the industry and IBM server line."

What don't you like about working at Avnet?

"The sales management staff is a joke. Forecasting is a fabrication to appease the executive staff. Excellent, hardworking salespeople have been laid off causing more work while nobody from management was let go."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Don't just spew the Core Values to make yourself sound like a company man, really put them to use. The faux sadness every time we have a layoff is getting tired and EVERYONE in the building sees thru it all."

What do you like about working at Avnet?

"I enjoyed the challenges of learning a new technoloygy, becuse I was not real knowledgeable when I started selling the IBM servers. I also enjoyed the pressures of hitting multiple number in a quarter."

What don't you like about working at Avnet?

"I did not like being inside sells. I am more of a outside sells rep."

"Great place to work!"

What do you like about working at Avnet?

"Great company and people."

What don't you like about working at Avnet?

"Nothing, I wish I was still in San Antonio working for them."

"Good experience"

What do you like about working at Avnet?

"Colleagues are friendly"

What don't you like about working at Avnet?

"No room for advancement"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To keep their employee focus on the goal"