Interactive Data Reviews

Pros

Low latency network experience which is priceless. Very good technical people to work with

Cons

Management work along with BAU technical work. Skill matrix gaps among work colleagues

Pros

Decent offices and benefits...had a great team of people working there but they outsourced all their jobs so not any more.

Cons

Dead end jobs with no progression unless someone else moves on. They under pay compared to market and competitors. No training opportunities either.

Advice to Management

Pay your best staff, offer clear career progression and training.

Pros

Great Team Relaxed Work Environment depending on the Team Lots to Learn

Cons

A lot of apathy amongst some longer term colleagues Pay is under Market average No real sponsored training and development budget for new starters or existing staff

Pros

Work life balance is flexible if you are fortunate to work for a good manager. There are a few good people in the organisation if you are lucky to work for one of the good ones.

Cons

There is a very silo'd mentality with RTS in my opinion being the poor relation to PRD. Middle management in RTS is majority staffed by people waiting for their pensions to pay out and many of them are very bitter and twisted especially after the company started to play around with the pensions, that said even before this happened there was definitely clear resentment from middle management towards newer staff and a... clear lack of interest in pushing the company its products or data forwards. I found that the training was minimal, there was no interest from certain middle management in helping new hires from outside their personal fiefdom step up to the mark. I found an incredible amount of resentment from certain middle managers and for anyone that has worked at TR and may be looking of thinking of joining IDC my advice would be to think twice. I also found many, not all I must stress, of the longer standing employees to be the epitome of mediocrity. A culture of laziness, lack of willingness to take responsibility for their own tasks and a desire to offload as much as their work as possible exists in many places throughout the organisation. As a company I would not recommend working here.

Advice to Management

I hope ICE management come in and take a unbiased look at the assets in terms of people, a clean broom through middle management would not go amiss.

Pros

Peers, office location, benefits, global offices

Cons

Poor management, no career progression, innovation adverse, US focus, poor internal processes, poor systems

Advice to Management

Become really global by empowering global experienced professionals

Pros

It is a good company to start you experience in financial data vendors: good environment and management, and good work/life balance

Cons

Unfortunately, it's a company where the progression, in terms of position, salary and bonus or benefit is very slow. Moreover, the job itself may become a little bit boring after a while

Advice to Management

More career opportunities should be created within the company, in order not to see good employess moving to competitors or IB or other financial companies

Pros

Family oriented company.. Will give you wiggleroom if you want to work from home some days.

Cons

Very low pay, low chance of bonuses unless you rub elbows with the top management.. located on a different continent.

Pros

Private equity are cashing in their chips - goodbye Mason Slaine, no more town halls from your boat in the Bahamas Good people in lower and mid ranks Customer focus Investment in fundamentals like email and phone systems Salaries are market standard

Cons

They are currently trying to cut the UK pension scheme and U.S. cubilcle sizes No pay rises for last 2 years HR is a joke - they are reactive and only manage there to handle redundancies and contract reductions

Advice to Management

Invest in your people - happy employees make happy customers make great top like makes great EBITDA Encourage more movement between the different business units instead of having 2nd class citizens in the same firm My positive outlook is based on the assumption that the current sale proceeds