D&B Reviews

Pros

Brand recognition and data quality of offering. By far the best in the business. Making investment to get back in the marketplace.

Cons

Slow to market. Poor technology. Boring platforms to sell. Awful comp plan design. Need to blow out goals to make any real money.

Pros

Its a good place for experienced professional.

Cons

Its not so good a place for Fresher

Pros

Provides Flexibility but depends on the supervisor.

Cons

Not great place to learn new things since most work is maintaining systems.
Not much work for BA's since not much development work.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate well and more.

Pros

They pay a competitive salary.
They seem to be concerned with employee health and well-being.
Good bonus program for most employees.

Cons

Management is solely focused on costs without regard for long term strategy. They still think that the data is going to be a big advantage in the future. They will do anything and everything to 'make the numbers' each quarter. There is little creative thought from senior leaders.

Advice to Senior Management

Think beyond the size of the database as a competitive advantage. Find products that benefit customers instead of worrying about costs.

Pros

You have the opportunity to work with very smart peers and the management works hard to keep it a fun environment

Cons

upward mobility was challenging at times being in a remote office. Positions were limited and the competition was very tough

Pros

Good people, good working environment. Friendly people willing to help. Within the programmers it is great. Technical programming people are very capable.

Cons

Lots of overtime. No overtime pay. Only one day in lieu for weekend work and Bank holidays. Poor retention of good staff. Management is disconnected to the programmers. More managers than programmers.

Advice to Senior Management

Need to watch the workload. Cut down on all the titles and make everyone feel equal. People is only motivated when everyone is motivated and working hard.

Pros

good benefit with dental and medical including children
a lot of friendly colleague
some roles are light workload
good job security

Cons

- get promotion only if top managements do not know you well
- promote incompetence to team leader or top management
- poor IT support
- poor salary

Advice to Senior Management

stop promoting incompetence staff to top management or leader
knowing one team leading speaks poor English and speak single English word to a big client every time client asks question. Client lost confidence to our company because of that!!

Pros

there was a small base

Cons

if they like you you get good leads to call, if they do not well...
a horrible company and experience

Advice to Senior Management

treat your inside sales people as people, allow variances in goals for time taken off. pay a fair commission and stop the nepotism involved in management

Pros

Good work/life balance and product development people.

Cons

No accountability and long term people need to be moved out. Too many 101% people and leaders.

Advice to Senior Management

Fix the problems

Pros

It is a recognized brand and good to know how the data is generated.
Flexible work environment for family, etc.
Some good people for building your network

Cons

Culture is EXTREMELY political. Skills and performance mean nothing if you aren't buddy buddy with senior managers.

No clear vision or teamwork within various groups and strategy seems to be a foreign word.

Work tends to be more fire drills and band-aids then executing on a well-thought out plan.

Stay away if you want a rewarding career and growth. If you are looking for a place to go 5 years until you retire, then D&B is for you!

Advice to Senior Management

Put people in job where they actually have experience. It seems like every senior manager came from Finance. Nothing against Finance, but you would think that an operations VPor a product VP would have at least some background in Operations or Product.