D&B Reviews

I worked at D&B

Pros – Good communication from management. The organisation is large enough for professional advancement and receptive to new ideas from staff. Generally, I was happy with my wage packet and benefits.

Cons – Too much corporate jargon. And the top down approach to building a corporate culture based on pride for the workplace is less motivational and somewhat more stifling. This is admittedly not a huge problem, but is fairly pervasive.

Advice to Senior Management – D&B is a good place to work, there's no need for all the corporate jargon and enforced team building exercises. People will be happier if they can just get on with their work.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at D&B full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Has a solid brand name in some regions

Cons – Not investing long term in people due to re-engineering
Too slow to keep up with competitors in all markets
Too much hubris within leadership

Advice to Senior Management – Investors need to think long term as they are losing tacit knowledge among key talent
Not enough staff year on year to cope with increased workload
Assess pricing strategy

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at D&B

Pros – As long as you know the right people you get far.

Cons – Very short term focus, although think this is slowly changing

Advice to Senior Management – Look beyond the obvious sales mentality, motivate the teams, learn about the other functions in the business

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at D&B

Pros – Experience, work Culture anfd Office Atmosphere is good

Cons – nothing to specific as such

I worked at D&B full-time for more than a year

Pros – Very relaxed and casual work environment.

Cons – Management changes every couple of months if not faster.

Advice to Senior Management – Commit to your reporting structure for at least 1 year before making re-org changes again

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at D&B as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Will be exposed to various departments and learn about the business structure of the company

Cons – Fresh graduates will have a harder time in choosing the department you prefer.

I worked at D&B full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Exposure to learning across various sectors
Informal Hierarchy
Senior are open to ideas from subrdinates

Cons – They pay lower than industry standards

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at D&B full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Salary was "ok", Benefits were "ok"

Cons – Management will lie to you...do as I say not as I do.

Advice to Senior Management – Be accountable and don't throw your staff under the bus to save your own hide.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at D&B full-time for less than a year

Pros – most of the office personal was nice, I enjoyed my co-workers and direct supervisor

Cons – it is an awful inside sales job. The hand you recycled leads and complain when you cannot turn them into new sales. Most of the work is cold calling people who did not know their company had a business credit report then you over charge them for access to it.

Advice to Senior Management – stop with the bad leads to the smile and dial factory floor. The training is awful, support non-existent, and yet it was presented, daily, as if it was the best thing since sliced bread

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at D&B full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Interesting business domain;
- Pool of talented people in the Dublin office, both highly-skilled and enthusiastic about technology;
- Nice working environment

Cons – - Highly bureaucratic organization;
- The organization prides itself as a technology “follower,” as opposed to being an early adopter – sometimes following far too late;
- Deadlines arbitrarily set by senior management to satisfy political agendas, causing stress, unpaid overtime and poor end-product quality – short-sighted decisions to reach short-term goals;
- Too many decision-makers, with conflicting opinions, causing the doers to constantly change directions;
- Waterfall approach with planning and design upfront, preventing reactivity, often resulting in building products that do not necessarily meet customers’ needs;
- The company employs too many contractors and vendors, responsible to some extent for the general inertia;
- Endless and outdated test cycles preventing any quick delivery to market.

Advice to Senior Management – - Stop the business talk, and get back to simplicity: D&B is not that big, and it doesn’t need a complex and onerous infrastructure;
- Put an end to big, design/planning upfront projects, with pointless meetings, reviews, checkpoints, etc. and lengthy test cycles at the end: adopt a lean, agile approach allowing fast releases, to quickly respond to customer needs and market changes.