Smile to your face, stab you in the back - Anonymous employee Informa Employee Review

2.0
6 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Medical insurance & charity days

Cons

The pay is well below industry standard and there is no meaningful effort to address it. For a company that talks endlessly about valuing its people, the compensation tells a very different story. The culture is entirely performative. Everyone is smiling in meetings while quietly watching their backs. There is a tight-knit clique embedded at every level of management, and if you're not part of it, your progression is effectively capped from day one. Promotions are handed out based on who you know and how much you agree with leadership, not what you actually deliver. To top it off, after normalising flexible and remote working, the company abruptly forced everyone back into the office with little justification and even less notice. It felt less like a business decision and more like a control measure — a way to keep tabs on people rather than trust them to do their jobs.

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Cons

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Decent benefits, nice co-workers, some international travel, and modern offices. I loved having unlimited sick time but never abused it.

Cons

This is thoroughly a British company. All key leadership is in the U.K., and they rarely visit American offices. This company is notoriously cheap and cost cutting always wins the day. All U.S. offices are simple satellites to the U.K. corporate offices. Let’s be real, if you are a U.S. employee, don’t expect to be paid well, don’t expect a decent raise, don’t expect development nor advancement, and do not expect the C-suite or division leaders to listen nor care. You are a cog in a machine which is designed to facilitate the offering of low quality information products and services to the U.S. market as a way to soak up as much public and private dollars as possible.

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