Equifax Reviews

Pros

Good Benefits. Good paid time off.

Cons

not enough chance for advancement in some areas of the company

Advice to Senior Management

provide more opportunities for advancement

Pros

The buck stops with you. You are given as much responsibility as you can take.

Cons

Lack of resources and people.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in people and technology.

Pros

Down to earth and tolerable management.
Decent pay and benefits.
Reputable company
Great people.
Community outreach programs
Tuition reimbursement
Attainable metrics.
Quality products and solutions

Cons

Lack of career path and development programs
Disincentive to go the extra mile
New Hire training program
Industry regulations are often major obstacle to achieving sales goals

Advice to Senior Management

Improvements in the incentive plan would result in greater productivity.
Make hard work and dedication worth it to your employees.

Pros

The majority of the people who work in our division are professional, driven and want to do well in their respective roles. It is a family-friendly environment with good work/life balance and flexible work schedules.

Cons

There are limited opportunities for professional growth. In Fortune 500 companies where I have been employed previously, there was encouragement and assistance to enhance your professional knowledge and skills. As well, there were defined career paths within the organization so that one could understand how to grow within company doing what they enjoy. you will not find this at Equifax. They have talked about this in the past, and realize it is an issue, but have yet to take visible steps to correct the situation. Due to that, people are jaded or leaving for other opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees and understand their concerns. There have been attempts and this, but not much change. Providing a clear way for employees to grow professionally within the organization is important as well. There is a knowledge base that you don't want to lose because you neglect the desire of an employee to grow and have a defined career path in which to aspire.

Pros

- Benefits
- Vacation Days
- People
- Discounts

Cons

- Senior Management is ignorant of the conditions of operations and sales or just don't care
- Severe Cronyism

Advice to Senior Management

Stop caring about "appearances". They are backfiring and destroying revenue for the company. Stop & Listen to low-level employees!

Pros

Equifax has good benefits, decent salaries, and clean, convenient office locations.

Cons

The company is severely understaffed, with many broken systems and processes. Senior management appears to be clueless or apathetic as to how to run the company, and does not respect the contributions of lower-level employees. There are restructurings every year that cause even more silos and confusion. Senior leaders cling to LEAN methodology to drive out costs and inefficiencies for everything except top heavy hiring. Current hiring consists of more senior management, but very few line employees to do the heavy lifting. The focus now seems to be on "looking good," but not showing actual skill or results.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior leadership could benefit from a huge dose of humility. Listen to and reward line staff. Treat them the way you'd want to be treated at that level in your career. In addition, many of the senior level positions are simply redundant (particularly in sales and marketing) and should be eliminated. Instead of paying huge salaries for little work output, reinvest into the systems and processes necessary to run the business more efficiently.

Pros

Good people, some investment in professional development

Cons

Corporate bureaucracy, investment in ideas outside the credit zone

Advice to Senior Management

Better due diligence on M&A activities

Pros

Pay is fair
Benefits are good

Cons

If you work in IT then you will not have any free time. After you design a solution and the product is live in production, you will be responsible for operations. The TCS and IBM offshore teams cannot handle operations and managment will call you 24x7 365 days a week. There is alot of cronyism within Equifax management. Alot of the IT managers were friends from GE and Accenture.

Advice to Senior Management

HR please listen to your employees. Cronyism with the Equifax management is causing alot of good employees to walk out the door.

Pros

Equifax is a large company and has good benefits. Equifax has decent technology and really good people for the most part.

Cons

Large company. States that it is a meritocracy; however, if you do a great job and exceed expectations, it might be "calibrated" down to meets expectations. Communication is often, but it's sometimes what they want the employees to hear. Location is in midtown which is not great for someone in the northern suburbs.

Pros

The people at Equifax are great to work with.

Cons

Very limited opportunity for growth. Out of the box thinking not supported or rewarded. Unfortunately, if you go the extra mile, you are only reducing your hourly take home pay.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in the talent you already have. If you sell tuition reimbursement as a perk, let the employee actually take advantage of it.