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      FactSet

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      3.9

      83% would recommend to a friend

      (5,269 total reviews)
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      Phil Snow and Sanoke Viswanathan

      83% approve of CEO

      67% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Senior management

      3.5

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      FactSet has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 5,269 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The FactSet employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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      5K reviews
      3.0
      Apr 16, 2019

      Culture degraded by CEO

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      General absence of jerks, managers support their reports, good place to start your career

      Cons

      CEO has created a culture where senior management is playing Game of Thrones--he doesn't like to hear contradictory opinions and surrounds himself with "yes people". Loyalists, in turn, push short-term, attention-grabbing projects of little lasting value and are promoted. This value placed on short-term change creates an incentive to restructure constantly, which is disruptive to the front-line employees who actually do the work. This has degraded the company's previous strength in work-life balance. At the same time, leadership is unwilling to get rid of highly paid free loaders who don't contribute to company needs.

      1.0
      Apr 22, 2019

      Managing Margins at It's Finest

      Vice president
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Work/life balance Flexible schedule possible once you have earned trust

      Cons

      Innovation always comes second to managing that quarter's margins Senior management gets large compensation increases while average employees make do with small increases (CEO had >20% compensation increase last fiscal year while a lot of average employees got 1-2% increases) Senior management routinely micromanages projects and overrule frontline managers so they can feel like they are adding value Blame culture growing stronger Frequent layoffs of strong performing people for the sole purpose of making predetermined operating margin numbers

      1.0
      Nov 8, 2019

      WORST COMP EVER

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great work/life balance, especially if you have a family, but ONLY on certain teams. Make sure the team you're joining is OK with flexibility.

      Cons

      1% raise for comp for exceeding expectations (a 2 on a 1-5 rating scale where 1 is best and 5 is fired)?!?!?! Compensation was just as bad last year and I did not think it could get any worse but boy was I wrong. Everyone is looking for another job... you cannot risk getting a bad comp for a third year.

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