IHS Reviews

Current Employee – been working at IHS full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great company. Awesome work culture and benefit.

Cons – Decisions are made slowly and takes so many steps to get approval.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at IHS full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great people to work with, very diverse work enviroment, not an old boys club. Full of characters from all over the world (young and old, many different cultures, languages and backgrounds),
 My immediate boss is great. Nice office enviroment in an upscale part of town. Bonus shares of stock vested after one year tied to company performance.

Cons – 2 % wage increases, even though the company is reporting record profits. Healthcare plan has pleny of room for improvement. Big corporate company that has been buying up smalll informaiton companies like crazy; down side is those people who made in through the initial aquisition are too concerned with protecting their own turf, mainly in the sales department. Sales is carved up into fiefdoms that dont make product sense.

Advice to Senior Management – Eliminate some of those middle-manament from the upper end. Honestly the chain of bosses between me and the CEO in huge. I don't even have any interaction with many of the "managers" above me. My immediate supervisor is great. Pay the staff of analysts and data collectors better, they are the real value in this company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at IHS full-time for more than a year

Pros – -IHS has acquired dozens of companies and will some day be able to offer a single platform to deliver content from any of its best-in-breed critical information and insight solutions
-Global company, hosts a world sales conference annually to bring sales colleagues together
-Sales incentive trip awarded each year to top performers- usually a week in Hawaii
-Good benefits, stock rewards for improvements on customer satisfaction surveys/hitting sales targets

Cons – -acquisitions take a long time to "melt" into a feeling of truly being "one company"
-trudging through integration of internal processes

Advice to Senior Management – Invest more in technology starting with a new ihs.com. Beef up servers for internal systems such as CRM. Beef up sales peoples' laptop performance capabilities so they are not slowing them down.. the extra $50 for RAM is a big help! Invest more into product development to ensure we can stand behind the pricing that we ask for our best-in-breed products.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IHS full-time for more than a year

Pros – good working nature at ihs

Cons – nothing downsides in ihs company

Former Employee – worked at IHS

Pros – Company helps people develop, through training etc

Cons – Salaries sometimes lower than for similar roles in other firms

Former Employee – worked at IHS

Pros – A great place to work with a strong and knowledgeable management team. Well compensated, although on average, its generally less than other similar industries. Great work/life balance.

Cons – Lots of process changes, and lots of management structure changes. However, the changes are always backed by valid reasoning and the rapidly changing nature of the business through acquisitions, etc. Promotions are rare on the lower end of the spectrum.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IHS

Pros – The flexibility my position allows for my personal life is excellent. I enjoy being in a position where I do not feel micromanaged and the benefits are great.

Cons – In this position, I often feel orphaned from the rest of the company, as I am at a site by myself.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at IHS

Pros – It's an excellent company to work with and a robust foothold in global security and economic information exchange. Very smart people. Company was actually navigated extraordinarily well during the last two difficult years.

Cons – Unique analytical job sometimes equals limited ability to move up. Maybe the corporate culture clashes a bit with the more academic-minded of employees. But honestly a bit difficult to find fault.

Advice to Senior Management – Tough to advise when your stock options are up 15+ percent....could I have done better? I'd say keep focus on the recently acquired companies.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend