Great working people - poor HR, poor leadership - Software Engineer Wood Mackenzie Employee Review

2.0
Nov 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Small individual teams were great. The people you work with day-to-day are great to work with, and work very hard to push things through. Plenty of things to pick up and learn when first starting out.

Cons

Poor compensation - salary increases and compensation are not competitive in the tech space. Leadership has trouble prioritizing projects. Planning meetings take hours and there's a lot of bureaucracy that gets in the way of making actual progress. On the HR side - there was a guy I worked with who had his last name completely wrong in the system for the first few months that he worked here. Oh, and I never got a formal exit interview from HR. That kind of tells you all you need to know. I guess that's what Glassdoor is for :)

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Pros

Good work life balance and interesting work

Cons

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3.0
Jun 15, 2026
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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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