GlobalData reviews

3.2

47% would recommend to a friend

(2,228 total reviews)
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Mike Danson

59% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

GlobalData has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,228 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
1.0
Dec 9, 2021

Work anywhere else!

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Pros

- Decent product for what it is - fair compensation, commission structure (minus loopholes) - good amount of talent on analyst teams - Some bright colleagues, good people

Cons

Far too many to mention. The positive reviews are fake, either from management or required. All of the negative reviews hold up based on my experience. I left almost immediately concerned their mediocrity might rub off. The only longstanding employees have worked together for years and simply don’t know any better which perpetuates antiquated and unethical practices. If you’re a good, smart person, you will feel guilt and regret for selling this mess to clients. - Insanely high turnover. Hiring managers lie to candidates to get them to accept offers. Anyone good sees what’s going on and 80% leave within 8 months (at all levels). - Little to no sales culture or process. There are specks of hope with certain individual contributors, but leadership simply doesn’t understand sales. No sales tools, no logic behind any system or process. - Company says it’s customer-centric but doesn’t know what that means. They align 4-5 sales teams against accounts that aren’t incentivized to work together. They treat customers poorly, shove unnecessary features down their throat, and blame reps for their long history of failure. - No real strategy. No proprietary value in product. Not a need to have. - Questionable business practices with customers. Shady work arounds by leadership to fake positive results. - Management will manipulate compensation, lie, and falsely promise change just to keep you in seat. - Publicly traded company, but the math doesn’t add up. There’s no way it’s profitable, or even 1/3 as valuable as they boast. - Below average benefits. - No collaboration amongst management. Tons of conflict, redundancies, and confusion throughout organization. Dealing with this place is a full-time, zero-star job in itself. - Insane amount of pointless internal initiatives, meetings, time sucks.

1.0
Sep 25, 2018
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Pros

None except meeting some great coworkers

Cons

Old boy English Network Management with no idea of how to treat people like human beings.....humiliating workers in front of colleagues is a sport for them. Create an atmosphere of fear.....for good reason, you could be screamed at and/or fired for no cause. Lie about job duties and expectations Break laws in US and I assume UK in the treatment of their employees. Of course have favorites that do not receive this type of belittlement. A manager that was a sociopathic liar with psychopathic behavior that excelled at torturing his team. Zero HR to report the ongoing abuse. I could go on and on and on.........

1.0
Dec 4, 2024
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Pros

If we are being completely honest there aren't to many Pros to speak of. You do get to work with a lot Fortune 500 organizations are have some freedom to work your own book.

Cons

The internal communication between management and Sales team is a disaster, there is a constant change with goal expectation and KPI focus on a regular basis. The lack of direction from the management is a borderline joke. Simple team functions like setting up a dinner fall flat on their face. Office/Team camaraderie is virtually non-existent. MGMT is willing to move on from great employees for minimal reasoning just to say they made a change to the CEO. Do not work here nothing good will come of it

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