Wood Mackenzie reviews

WoodMac and PowerAdvocate change leadership like they change their underpants - there is clearly some unhappy people at the top. Strategy is not clear so Executive team get sick of the lack of commitment to a direction and leave. Those that stay are stuck in their ways and are sitting on a pile of cash that they received when WoodMac was acquired and sold multiple times - ultimately ending up in the hands of Verisk - that has no idea what to do with it. Corporate HR are driving a constant headcount reduction agenda because the labour cost is too high. People are constantly watching their backs constantly scared of the witch-hunting HR organisation. Verisk parent company has no interest in pursuing a Consulting business as the revenue streams are volatile. They just want a boring subscription business which drives decisions around consulting resourcing and strategy. VPS are very territorial and do not work together. This limits the work that you get to do and the career opportunities available to junior employees. Consulting and Research don’t work together well and hence have conflicting analysis on many sectors. .

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 :)