Good benefits, poor work/life balance - Recensione dipendente - IT Engineer, Senior presso TransUnion

4,0
27 ago 2018
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

I was at TU for almost 9 years. FTO and healthcare benefits are good. Nice offices, renovated in the last 5 years. This is a *big* IT org/infrastructure. If you want experience in a large scale, highly siloed enterprise environment, this is for you. If you want to be a jack of all trades doing a little bit of this, a little bit of that, look elsewhere.

Svantaggi

- The IT infrastructure staff is worked way too hard. Some groups have hundreds even thousands of servers to manage. Draconian change policies force even a lot of project work to be done after hours, meaning even if you are not on call you can end up working 2,3,4 nights a week after 10pm. The reason they do this is because incompetent staff have screwed things up so many times and they have actually started to fire those responsible for outages but there is little to no accountability in management, where people are regularly promoted and shuffled around rather than being fired for doing a horrible job. - There are at least 3 too many layers of management. There is no way anyone should have a boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss before getting to the CTO. TU has never met a problem that can’t be solved with another manager. This also means even if engineers have sorted out a solution on their own there is bound to be a manager somewhere who decides that they are going to ‘take the lead’ and basically make everyone do all the work again with the same result. This also leads to 20 people on every single 2am tech bridge call where people endlessly talk over each other and are forced to give a recap of the entire problem once the next-higher person in pecking order joins the call. - While pay raises are relatively consistent, don’t ever expect anything more than 2-3%. Bonuses are pretty low too, topping out at about 2% after taxes. Hardly enough to make any sort of impact on your overall salary.

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Risposta di TransUnion
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I appreciate your feedback on your time at TransUnion and thank you for your nearly 9 years with us. We're a big company with a fast-growing tech team and that's creating new opportunities for our people every day. I know there's still progress to be made in expanding our tech team to provide global support to our business. This is why we've opened our Global Technology Center in Chennai which will help expand tech capabilities and balance workload. Your feedback is important to me and I would welcome your reach out to discuss more. If you're willing, please email me directly at mohit.kapoor@transunion.com so we can address your concerns. - Mohit Kapoor, CTO

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5,0
18 mar 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The interview process was very smooth and the recruiter responded back fairly quickly

Svantaggi

After the first assessment, it took some time to hear back from them

3,0
10 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

In your down time, if you're caught up on tickets you can basically do whatever you want granted, you're still attentive to phone calls No overbearing managers checking in on you

Svantaggi

Company feels very disorganized TransUnion uses SalesForce as their main ticketing system, and it is not maintained at all. When a new account manager takes over an account, half the time they do not update who the account manager is in SalesForce or they will simply create a new account. You'll receive a lot of complaints from customers informing you they do not know who their account manager. I've been told by customers that Experian and Equifax list who their account manager is when they log into their accounts. A lot of times you'll be sent on a wild goose chase to track down who the actual account manager is. There are many accounts with the same name or a slightly altered name. For example, there will be walmart, WalMart, WALMART, and you will have to figure out which is the most up to date account for the customer. Some account managers flat out ignore calls and emails from their customers which ends up causing more work for you since they'll be calling and emailing whatever number and/or email they can, and you'll team majority of the time receives the brunt of it. Feels less like IT/technical work and more like a call center where your sole objective is to push tickets and direct tickets to the correct location. There will be many tickets you are unable to resolve on your own because you do not have the correct permissions. Unfortunately, this role is the catch all net for when the system, customers, or other TransUnion employees are unsure who to go to for an issue, meaning, you'll also receive a lot of tickets that do not fall into your scope. For example, you'll receive tickets for billing and invoices, account managers not responding to customers, questions about websites/applications you do not know, and more. A lot of the login error tickets could be reduced if TransUnion websites informed the customer what the issue is. For example, instead of the website informing the customer their account has been locked, or they need to perform a password reset, the website will only tell the customer to contact the 1-800 number, which also creates more work for you. There's honestly a lot more wrong with this position that makes you basically feel like you are the bottom of the barrel, but I only have so much energy

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