Pros
GlobalData offers the most opportunity for growth for young professionals (particularly in sales), who are new to the job market. It has made considerable improvements, from the time I started, e.g. improved facilities, heavy investment both on online and corporate branding, with a focus on social media.
Cons
The business owner has a reputation for building businesses with the view of selling them for profit. The method is relatively simple, to keep costs down (even if it means a high turnover of the people, who generate the content) and sell at whatever price, you can get away with. As far as I am aware, there was not, a structured approach to managing margins and keeping them healthy.Another way of keeping cost down was to take back on one hand, what you handed over with the other hand (no free coffee, the coffees machines were operated by the facilities department) and the staff cafeteria had to generate a profit. Outdated prospection techniques, coupled with a level of micromanagement rarely seen before or after the GlobalData experience, are the mark of a firm unable to trust the brilliant minds, they hire. Add to that a conflict of interest between the marketing and sales teams and you understand the reasons that employees, who have had the luxury of working for more professional firms, tend not to stay long. Also the incompetence of some middle management staff, is also certainly not helped, by the servile reverence of the human resources department towards them.
