Generally Good People, Can Develop marketable skills, Poor management and poor at retaining good people. - Consultant FactSet Employee Review

2.0
Nov 1, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

-Young ,energetic group of people. -Free Lunch/Snacks/Drinks -If you can stick it out for 2-3 years, you'll probably get promoted...Likely into Sales. -Develop technical skills to move out of the support/software side and into the research/investment side of the industry.

Cons

-Serious Office Politics- it's a game of CYA, and making it seem like you're working harder than everyone else (whether you are or not). -Lack of experienced leadership/management on the consultant level. This leads to poor handling of people and problems. -This is not a job in finance. It is customer/technical support for software that investment professionals use. Essentially a call center for support from sometimes very angry finance professionals for the first 6 -12 months of the job. -Seemingly random raises. They say you are not supposed to talk about compensation, but with a young, generally amicable group of people, they obviously do. -Limited career opportunities outside of Sales Team. -People recognize the company for what it is...a good place to become a salesperson or get experience and leave. In my 2 years there, over 10 people both junior and senior level left to go elsewhere.

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Cons

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