Experian reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(5,701 total reviews)
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89% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Experian has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 5,701 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Experian employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Aug 18, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The main office at 475 Anton is great with schedule flexibility and supports the work/family balance. 9 out of 10 managers are supportive and available when you need them. Good benefits and vacation allotments. Clean, newer office and equipment. Overall pleasant workforce with a 'let's help each other' vibe. Backstabbing and self-promotion at the expense of coworkers is NOT the norm. Experian is ethical in its purported intent and business goals and actively promotes community involvement and supports local and national charities.

Cons

Workforce is top heavy with management, especially on the director and VP level. The company talks about not having silos (i.e. groups that have information that isn't known/shared freely with other groups) yet silos persist and cross group/department communication is poor. Customer focus initiatives are rolled out with fanfare, much to the appreciation of clients, only to fade away in a year or two due to changes in upper management and/or a lack of accountability from regulators. And of course, mass layoffs are routine. I worked there for almost 15 years, and for the first few years, the layoffs happened perhaps every three years, including the year I started. The last six years have incurred layoffs every year, with the rate increasing to quarterly this year. Perhaps this is due to the change in upper management to those with a background in finance: the bottom line for the next quarter is everything (shareholders must see an immediate profit!), and long-term planning is moot? I guess time will tell if this strategy works or if the talent pool of experienced workers becomes so drained that data quality becomes severely compromised.

2.0
Aug 17, 2014

Attack of the Drones

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. Big name for CV (if that's even worth anything any more) otherwise none.

Cons

1. Talentless drones 2. Wages relatively low, bonuses practically non-existent. 3. Pigeonholed - most people get pidgeonholed in to single-skill or sometimes no-skill boring jobs. 4. Slow train to nowhere - it's one of those places you spend 20 years trying to get somewhere by which time you're as useless as everyone else but have a manager title because all the good people moved on to better things and you were the last one left. 5. Lots of red tape, slow to get anything done, takes weeks for trivial things, meetings about meetings 6. Paper Architects - as bad as in banking they don't actually know how to do anything, literally one received an award for X years of service and it was painful to even watch him use Microsoft Office, extremely limited and narrow IT knowledge of the marketplace and technologies never mind how anything actually works.

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