GlobalData reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(2,230 total reviews)
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Mike Danson

57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

GlobalData has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,230 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The GlobalData 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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2K reviews
2.0
Jun 14, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

My line manager was great. Took action immediately when there was a problem with a colleague making me uncomfortable. Working from home was an option pre-pandemic a few days a week. Minimal oversight.

Cons

Upper management totally disengaged, had to force a pay review as was previously being paid £16k and then they advertised the same position at £18k. Work was tedious, no training given, no possibility of advancement or even a lateral move. Zero support overall. Mind numbing.

1.0
Jun 6, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Not sure, a drink trolley on Fridays

Cons

- Micromanaged regularly whether you sell or not. - KPI targets for sales team are 80 calls a day, plus 2 hours on the phone - all in the same day. Every week you’ll be getting pressure from these KPIs because to reach them you have to work overtime. It doesn’t matter if you hit your target, you still have to make the KPIs delivered. - If you wish to achieve your targets you have to research new prospects, decision makers outside of your working hours, the same with preparing emails, otherwise you will never reach any KPIs. - Hybrid working- during the interview process they sell you the job as a hybrid, than few months down the line you are asked to come to the office every day. They change their policies multiple times a year. Make sure you request adding your hybrid working benefit in the contract, otherwise you’ll be surprised later that it’s not there..

1.0
May 30, 2023

Awful company - AVOID

Recommend
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Pros

Worked with some amazing team members, who were also all treated appallingly by this organisation

Cons

The senior management at this company is the most meddlesome, micromanaging team you will ever encounter in a professional setting. The CEO has all the focus of a fruit fly at a rubbish dump. Strategy changes at a moment's notice, as does your employment status. Be prepared to have no clear structure to your work, no regard for your actual skillset and no regard for you as a person. There isn't even a pretence of employee care in this place. The company claims to have a media division, which is really a glorified marketing department to sell data that is rarely quality controlled, and when you point out the many, many, many glaring errors in the datasets that are sold to clients you are told not to talk about it as the CEO gets angry at that. Interesting to note the 5star reviews for this company by interns just in the door...

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