Thomson Reuters Reviews

Pros

Great culture and working colleagues.

Cons

Internal career progression and monetary aspect are poor when moving roles, as a progression.

Advice to Management

N/A

Pros

Work Life Balance and friendly environment

Cons

Pay doesn't increase much over the year from a low base

Pros

Nice staff managers a bit sneaky. Boring it tasks

Cons

Promotion pay team spirit communication .....u know the drill

Advice to Management

Fix up look sharp

Pros

TR is an old-fashioned data business, with large proportion of its revenues still coming from news and print business. If this is your idea of a good employer, they provide a lot of job stability (with some recent exceptions), nice offices, stress-free (albeit not always objectively good) benefits and a recognisable name on your CV. If you stay for a while, they will promote you into various job titles which will... sound good at dinner parties. If you get a good sales patch you will hit consistent 100% every year. You still won't earn as much as elsewhere, but you will probably get more job satisfaction and sense of achievement that way. I don't know much about the life outside of sales, but it looks like people stay for a while and are generally happy, but all in all slightly underpaid. This is the kind of company that will really take care of you if you happen to get a long-term sickness or other unfortunate life events. There are some amazing redundancy packages to be had too. Additionally, there seems to be less politics than in other large organisations I worked at.

Cons

The data business is shrinking or is at least set to plateau. Anybody not living in a cave can see that. The business has been trying to go into software but boy they don't know how to do it, and it's a consistent shitshow with poor product, poor sales staff, poor remuneration, bizarre management, slow R&D and completely wrong culture. There are a couple of acquisitions that do alright, but only by virtue of... being kept separate. People tend to either leave relatively quickly due to non-fitting culture, or stay for decades due to stress-free life and benefits, that eventually makes them unemployable elsewhere and in turn makes them stay longer. This does mean that the average tenure at TR is through the roof though. Benefits can also be non-cost effective, if you bother shopping for those elsewhere - often even your tax will outweigh the full price directly from provider (as it often is with other large employers). They are convenient though and lots of people use them.

Advice to Management

Instead of hiring consultancies that will just point at obvious business efficiencies at the micro-level, re-think the business as a whole, figure out where you are going, please for the love of God communicate it, and ask that industry specialist consultancy to help (which will probably be a lot cheaper that way too). Acquire more and build less. Question the added value of directors and heads of. Overall, be more... dynamic, and not just with flexible desks and cafeteria-plan benefits.

Pros

Great colleagues and atmosphere, good pay

Cons

Traditional HR and executive level with little room to grow career

Pros

Brilliant career progression and opportunity Very global in nature Highly ethical and strong integrity - treat employees well Strong inclusive values

Cons

Sometimes too bureaucratic which slowed things down

Pros

Flexible working and nice team members

Cons

Pay, management and role not as advertised

Pros

Better and understanding people to communicate with

Cons

Not enough compensation for the work