Run If You Can - Anonymous employee Sustainalytics Employee Review

1.0
8 Mar 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Up until 2023, it was a great and fun place full of intelligent people who generally about sustainability (beyond having ESG in their job title). Despite the (very) low pay levels, the company culture made it all worthwhile.

Cons

Top level has lost its way, where switching directions is like a quarterly tradition, with no consideration of its impact on the workforce, who are left in perpetual uncertainty. Mid-level managers think about meeting their own KPIs or ticking boxes for pretence rather than listening to their teams and leading by example. Office politics is the name of the game now, so forget about meaningful collaborations and insightful feedback. Typical toxic corporate jungle. Any suggestions for improvement are bound to face a rigid structure that by design is not innovation-friendly. Employee feedback is collected, but its value is nullified by a lack of action. Criticism, regardless of how valid, is consistently brushed aside, from middle management to the top. Worst of all, the parent company and the new leadership couldn't care less about sustainability; profit is all that matters. This shift not only poisons the corporate culture but also degrades the products, offering little value compared to competitors. From being a market leader, it looks like in a year, most of its services won't even be competitive.

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5.0
29 Jan 2024
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Pros

Quality leadership from Sustainalytics Great coworkers Collaborative working environment Good mission

Cons

Parent company is public with high-growth expectations Several positions eliminated globally in Q3 and Q4 2023, some due to ESG-backlash in US Very low diversity across all divisions Few options for internal mobility & promotions

1.0
15 Sept 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It was a good place to start a career in ESG once upon a time. Work/life balance was great.

Cons

- Lack of innovative products = still trying to ride its legacy ESG product suite that was relevant years ago, but is severely limited compared to its competitors. Any attempt at new research or development is stalled or canned due to budget constraints. - Lack of vision = senior leadership has successively abandoned this company without a care for the 1000s of employees they left behind, only for them to be slaughtered by Morningstar-sanctioned layoffs. They made an Index person head of an ESG shop.... how inspiring. - Lack of compensation = Way below market. Even compared to other ESG data providers. - Lack of career growth = You are hired to fill a role, not grow a career. Very limited career development opportunities. - Lack of diverse leadership = For an ESG data provider, leadership has always been pretty male-centric (until all the senior men leave and they started promoting female leaders). I don't think Sustainalytics will exist in 2 years...

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