Formerly great company, ruined by corporate buyout - Software Engineer Wood Mackenzie Employee Review

2.0
Jun 5, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The people you work with and see day to day are nice, friendly, and great to work with. Work isn't demanding with unreasonable deadlines and people are reasonable to work with, so work/life balance is good. Very LGBT friendly.

Cons

Even just a few months ago, this would have been a VERY positive review. But after the Veritas buyout, the company has become increasingly a worse and worse place to work at each month. The company no longer cares about creating high quality long-term products and only seems to care about how to get something done as cheaply as possible as fast as possible. There is very little to no room for career growth as an engineer here anymore in most teams due to this as well. Even people overqualified for a promotion are made to jump through every hoop imaginable to get it. Even with high profits, they are also still willing to lay off employees so that they can hire cheaper outsourced labor, so job security is very weak as well - unless you're underpaid.

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5.0
May 31, 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance and interesting work

Cons

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3.0
Jun 15, 2026
Recommend
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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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