A legacy company trading on past glories - Principal Analyst Wood Mackenzie Employee Review

1.0
Aug 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice clean offices in good locations. Provision of free fruits. Pockets of very good analysts within the firm. Often gets mixed up with a well known global consultancy.

Cons

It's a well known fact that Wood Mackenzie was taken over by Verisk. There has been a very high turnover in senior management staff as some of the "old guard" cashed out on the windfall. Most of these guys had contributed to making the company what it had become. The replacement management obviously had big boots to fill and while some are very good, others are not and have clearly contributed to the low morale prevailing among the company. To make matters worse some of those new senior managers were not promoted purely on talent but on an " inclusiveness and gender criteria" especially in metals and mining team.

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Pros

Appreciated working with smart, driven colleagues; they were truly experts in their fields. The rigorous schedules we were on were strictly maintained, which usually made for a very organized structure and workload.

Cons

Leadership went through many changes and acquisitions while I was there. The mission seemed to keep changing, and it wasn't easy to maintain consistency in our reports with such leadership changes. Market analysts were often pulled onto consulting projects but were not paid as consultants. This is what pushed me to leave.

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