Acxiom Reviews

Pros

Great Place to Learn, Great first job, pretty average pay. Senior management is pretty good, but you are really just a number.

Cons

Company always reorgs. Pie in the sky mentality to be a one-stop shop for multichannel marketing. disorganized in org charts. Not paid fairly.

Advice to Senior Management

Value your employees in terms of pay. Stop reorganizing the company every six months. Articulate a clear vision for the future.

Pros

Good associates that care about each other, the work and the customers. Good place to gain contemporary marketing related technology skills.

Cons

Executive management allows misalignment and in-fighting between groups. Extremely poor financial reporting and financial management capabilities. Too much focus on profit over associate and customer satisfaction. Executive management makes decisions in their own self interest.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop treating employees and customers so poorly. They are both the reason you exist even though you think it is all about you. Fix all of the misalignment between LOBs, markets and especially the GSO. Act more professional and respectful toward people.

Pros

Flexible schedule. Ability to work from home if needed. Good Health Benefits. On-site Fitness Center

Cons

Leadership from the top down is working employees into the ground. It's a very uncaring attitude with a single-minded focus on getting the work done regardless of the well-being of associates. People leaving the company are not being replaced leaving those left to pick up the slack. Most teams are overworked to the point of complete burn-out with no additional compensation or bonus. 3% pay cut in 2009 and no raised for the past 4-5 years.

Advice to Senior Management

A more proactive approach by leaders to implement strict minimum hours and foster an environment that encourages employees not to continue working after hours. Greater creative thinking, productivity and better results can be achieved.

Pros

Some teams are good with nice team spirit.
Flexible work hours, you can run errands for 1 or 2 hours with some preplanning

Cons

Salary is not upto mark with rest of the industry.
Not seen hike in 4 years. Salary cut was done 2 yrs ago no chance of it bouncing back.
Career growth? plan? no idea.
interaction with manager is zero

Advice to Senior Management

Motivate employees to perform better to go that extra mile. people in different location have no idea of whats going on in elsewhere

Pros

Small company feel, people are easy to work with

Cons

Poor planning, execution of strategies, management styles and slow pace

Advice to Senior Management

Better execution is vital to the company growth

Pros

the companies consideration for your family and also for your health.

Cons

There is sometimes preferential treatment to the people who are working on 'hot' projects at the time.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the associates and their families in the equation and you will get good results from them!

Pros

1) Good start - you can get a grip how it is to work in global organization
2) Great people to work with!
3) You won't get exposure to the newest ideas and technologies but it's always something

Cons

1) Very bad or no organization
2) Redundancy of: management, reporting, etc.

Sometimes I had impression that management is just doing random decisions.

Advice to Senior Management

1) Better organize
2) Connect between different lines of business
3) Try to incorporate newest technologies by hiring new, active people. Currently there are just old guys left which like things like they were few years ago.

Pros

The work schedule is very flexible. You are able to work from home when it's convenient. The amount of paid days off is good and the insurance is very affordable.

Cons

Random layoffs. Going in, they'll tell you that they don't do layoffs. They'll say they "reorganize". Don't be fooled. They have layoffs annually and no one is immune.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't fix what's not broken. Leave the selling to the sales staff. Give your associates some piece of mind that their job is secure.

Pros

- Lots of paid time off
- Telecommuting
- Covered parking
- Small town setting
- On site restaurant
- Nice office

Cons

- Product development is being moved offshore (to China and Poland).
- Until recently no backfills were approved for U.S., and senior level management must approve all requisitions which is highly irregular.
- Attrition is out of control in just about every part of the organisation. There has been a brain drain that will eventually have an impact to the bottom line of the business. Employees are not considered as assets.
- Remaining employees are forced to take on unrealistic workloads.
- There are no annual raises and paycuts; senior execs brag that they also took a paycut but it was only to their base salaries.
- No company-wide bonus incentive program; reserved only for upper management and sales
- Sales commission program rewards on making the sale and not on delivery.
- Sales and delivery executives blatantly mislead (right out lie to) clients about the company's capabilities which puts everyone else involved with the client in a very uncomfortable position.
- We are all being forced to take on roles outside of our skillsets without proper training and support.
- There is an identity crisis: Is it a marketing company or a software company?
- There is no clear vision for the company.
- Most decisions by management seem desperate and schizophrenic.
- Core products and technologies are being neglected. There is little to no investment in development.
- There is little if any trust in management, and many think that the company is headed for failure.
- There is no diversity especially in management which is mostly male and Caucasian.
- Senior management is elitist and only communicate via e-mail from their ivory tower.
- Morale is terrible; attempts to improve it are hollow and lame.
- Everyone is desperate to get out.

Advice to Senior Management

Please resign. You don't understand this industry or this company. You are slowly running it into the ground, and the tipping point has been breached.

Pros

Reasonable PTO policies
-Free covered parking
-Decent free workout room
-Small-city setting
-Probably best suited for a recent grad, and not a mid-career transition
-Had one good mid-level manager

Cons

Mixed messages about workplace flexibility (do as I say...), rampant cronyism--unsolved by the post-morgan regime, hidden layoffs. Pay below market, with few raises. Worked hard--on products, services, enhancements, etc. that were discarded.

Advice to Senior Management

Dump the programs meant to disguise how bad or good things are going. Give a process a chance before ditching it. Kill the abuses of the good ol' boy system. Find a balance between real revenue generation (operating revenue aka cost cutting doesn't count!) and infrastructure building.