GlobalData reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(2,228 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 2,228 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
5.0
Feb 7, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

GlobalData is a fast paced company, gaining market share in the competitive market research space. The people who work here are amazing and the team very, supportive and willing to help. The solutions and platforms are cutting edge and useful to growing companies, and GlobalData is constantly improving its offering through acquisitions and development. I have been very impressed at how committed the management team is to providing an exceptional product set.

Cons

The sales support tools are lacking. Contact management, account and opportunity management is not as streamlined as I have seen elsewhere. It is a work in progress - heading the right way - but still a long way to go.

1.0
Feb 7, 2018

Such a negative atmosphere

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you try and quit, they increase your salary a lot to stay but you really should just quit and get out! Noone works after 5pm

Cons

Senior management are lazy and never improve the business, just keep it ticking Lie about promotional opportunities which never happen Everyone is miserable in the office which makes it a horrible place to work Loads of complaints from customers which they don't deal with

1.0
Feb 6, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Central and they pay your salary on time. Really nothing else! Worst work environment you will experience. Avoid, avoid & avoid!

Cons

Directors and Management (team leaders) are basically people with no respect, intelligence or culture. They will lie to you, bully you, give you KPI’s impossible to achieve and no proper training is given beside discussing KPI’s improvement (cold calling more) and how you can “try” to sell a bad product without complaining. My brief experience in this company just made me feel what I will never do if I create a business myself. All reviews I read on Glassdoor that are negative for this company are true. And I know because I’ve heard many times that the floor directors and team leaders are obliged to write positive reviews to increase the score, otherwise they would have 1 star. This is not from a person (like I read on other “made” comments) who didn’t presentes nice sales and results. I was good selling the product I had to sell. Always achieve my objectives but the truth is: commissions are really bad comparing to other companies, if you watched wolf of Wall Street imagine the movie without the funny parts and you will have a preview how this company works, they sell bad products by lying to clients, 80’s mentality where they give you a phone book and you need to cold call random people you will search on LinkedIn, uneducated people environment, sociopaths are the 10% who still work there after 6 months, fighting for leads against your own colleagues, I saw people fighting there, they use suits to be on the phone every day and to impress the colleague who works alongside them, people without intelligence using a script to call intelligent people, they read call stats on the floor in front of everybody, offices with 7 floors and 4 toilets available for 700 workers! Avoid this place. If you want to work in sales read the real reviews here on Glassdoor and just find a nice company to start your sales career. At globaldata you basically will learn how to cold call people and how to find people on LinkedIn.

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