McGraw Hill Financial Reviews

Current Employee – been working at McGraw Hill Financial full-time

Pros – Strong company, good pay and benefits. Some parts of the organization are run well and there can be opportunities for advancement.

Cons – Many areas are being outsourced or off shored. Morale is low as employees are expected to support the work that will replace their jobs. Senior management is mostly out of touch and concerned only with the bottom line.

Advice to Senior Management – Recognize the value of the your employees

– I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at McGraw Hill Financial

Pros – Your peers
Work environment
Helping customers sometimes

Cons – Not a lot of promoting at this company they instead train you to assist in other areas, no pay raise, with extra work at a flat rate leaves little incentive to remain an employee.
Programming/Engineer support is extremely limited, you disappoint a lot of paying customers
Management
Scheduling
Training

All of the above are handled in a very unprofessional manner.

Advice to Senior Management – I know the company has been bought so they will purge you.

Former Employee – worked at McGraw Hill Financial full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – You can do very little and hide for a long time.
QuicksDraw McGraw could run a better company.

Cons – Layers, layers, layers of management that are clueless and clearly don't care..

Advice to Senior Management – Get a clue...

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McGraw Hill Financial full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Hard working colleagues, long time employees, wide range of businesses

Cons – Inconsistant recognition/bonuses, favoritism, clueless upper management, no consistent work/life options

Advice to Senior Management – Get a better performance recognition program that has structure. Upper management seems to only recognize their favorites and not the effort that was put into a project when handing out bonuses. Look at the performance & skills of the shared services management. None of them know the first thing about developing employees and they hide in their offices and are nowhere to be found.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at McGraw Hill Financial full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits, wonderful work life balance.

Cons – Very frustrating senior leadership and org structure.

Advice to Senior Management – You must innovate and move faster. Be less political.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McGraw Hill Financial full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Benefits; Flexible scheduling and Time Off; Great Pay if in the digital area

Cons – Management is blind. If you offer ideas that are obvious to the company's success, you get pushed aside for another way, and this "other way" messes things up worse.
Very $$$$ driven. If it doesn't make the company money, or save it money, it gets passed over.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your PEONS. They know more than you think. WE are the ones talking to the customers, NOT YOU. You talk among yourselves about money and layoffs, we talk among each other about ways to improve processes. I just WISH I was in a position to make changes. The company would stop wasting time and money on stupid repetitive processes they pay us to do everyday, and these processes would be automated.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at McGraw Hill Financial full-time

Pros – competitive salary, reasonably good benefits

Cons – rampant politics. lots of bureaucracy. poor work-life balance. too much upper management. little if any training or career advancement.

Advice to Senior Management – get a handle on the corporate politics. get off the outsourcing/offshoring bandwagon.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at McGraw Hill Financial full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Fairly good pay and benefits, lots of highly educated co-workers, widely recognized brands.

Cons – Little opportunity for advancement. Its all about who you know rather that what you know. Senior management is mostly out of touch with their markets. New ideas are frowned upon.

Advice to Senior Management – Too much of a good-old boy network. CEO needs to step down and take some of his cronies with him. Doubtful that company will be able to succeed in an increasingly competitive global marketplace as long as it continues to rely on advice of same senior managers.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McGraw Hill Financial full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – strong brand recognition, great opportunities on the business side, good BU leadership, spinning of Education business will strengthen the Financial protfolio

Cons – No career track for HR or Finance, all decisions are made by 3-5 people, decision making takes years (this is being nice), All of HR does not understand what the business needs

Advice to Senior Management – New Corporate Leadership, commit to a pay for performance culture, walk the walk

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at McGraw Hill Financial

Pros – -great benefits
-work/life balance
-good co-workers
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Cons – -bad direct management - upper management has no idea what's going on
-no room for professional growth
-encouraged to have new ideas, only for those ideas to be never taken seriously or completely ignored
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Advice to Senior Management – it doesn't take a lot to show appreciation to your staff or team members. Appreciation does not always have to be a higher wage, but kind words, encouragements, little gifts or tokens, a nice note, etc.