Vantaggi
Salaries are decent for experience levels required (though not worth it for the stress and hours you put in). Nice lunches and dinners for special occasions. Analysts and Directors are awesome, though led by egotistical leadership.
Svantaggi
Too many to list, however I’ll try. TLDR: Insane working hours (weekends, evenings, and holidays), toxic leadership, high turnover, shady practices, old-school mentality, offensive language. You literally will not find a company more toxic and harmful to your mental health than this. The overall attitude from leadership is extremely disrespectful and condescending. They hire you because you have “great experience” and say they’ll be open to hearing your ideas. However, the reality is when you actually start at this company it’s clear that any deviation from how your manager or the company wants to do something is wrong and you’re told that asking questions is a sign of incompetence. People who join this company are immediately shocked by how they’re spoken to and as soon as they join immediately want to leave. This has led to short stints by most sitting below the VP level, with people sometimes leaving within months due to the intolerable atmosphere. Leadership knows this, but there’s no effort to change this behavior as those at the very top are the ones who created and perpetuate this culture because it serves them. As a result, many of the people who are Analysts or Directors speak about how their mental health has struggled due to the environment. Anyone who is not a white male here will feel uncomfortable with the language used by the leadership which is often racist, sexist, fatphobic, and transphobic. Because there is no HR, things said that at any other company that would warrant a report and warning are allowed to slide by. There is no training, which is really difficult when you have an organization that uses out of date technology and processes to execute research — meaning that even the most seasoned researchers have to learn outdated painful technical processes, which can lead to inaccuracies. Things that are normally outsourced or automated by other companies are done manually/in-house here, meaning hours are long in order to execute the quick turn research that VPs+ promise (sometimes delivering research within a day of receiving data). Be ready to work weekends, evenings, and even sometimes holidays to be considered adequate at your job — but even when you rise to the insane turn around standards don’t expect to be praised or trusted. There’s no real interest for leadership to grow the company, because that would mean respecting, trusting, and building up their employees — which would challenge their insanely inflated egos. That’s why this firm hasn’t been able to grow people-wise at all in over 20 years of operating. Because much of the leadership has never worked at a legit research organization in an actual researcher role for a prolonged amount of time, the most basic standards to ensure data and research integrity are not met. There’s so much more to say, but overall this company takes amazing researchers and runs their energy + self esteem to the ground. Also, the reviews you see on this page are largely fake + from the toxic leadership that wants to encourage people to join the team due to constant turnover.