IHS Reviews

I worked at IHS full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great comp and benefits. Great people to work with.

Cons – constant reorgs, no acquisition integration strategy beyond email, telecom.

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

I have been working at IHS full-time for more than a year

Pros – The work life balance is great. people are very helpful.

Cons – Management is not a safe place to be if you want to stay employed.

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

I have been working at IHS full-time

Pros – Fast paced, ability to implement base practices,

Cons – Fast paced, some weak team direction.

I have been working at IHS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – This really is a company that is unlike any other - Opportunity abounds if you're in the right areas and can "add value" to the enterprise as a whole. Work/Life balance is exemplary and the total compensation packages are good IF you were hired before the pension was cut off. Stock options are ok but not in the same league that they were a few years ago. They're nice to have but they're not life changers anymore.

Cons – Internal politics rule. It doesn't matter how much revenue you make for IHS, if your face doesn't fit with your current boss then you're done in the next lay off round. Unbelievably bad revenue recognition / tracking within the internal process. It's possible to absorb 100% of cost and be credited with 0% revenue when working across the business - this leads to culling people who make a difference while retaining deadwood. After recent events I personally will never attend a mission/values event - We don't live the values that we preach.

Advice to Senior Management – We need more domain expertise.
Are we an insight company that adds value to data or a data company that sells software to visualize it ?

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

I have been working at IHS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Pays senior level positions well.

Cons – Not a friendly atmosphere. Serious integration problem -- everybody's out for themselves, technology platform is archaic. Teams get siloed easily. Not much career growth or real sponsorship.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more receptive and inclusive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at IHS full-time for more than a year

Pros – stock benefits were good until they got stingy

Cons – Its His, Scotts. That describes IHS. Either you fall in line with the new CEO, or you get the boot.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop surrounding yourself with a bunch of yes men

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

I worked at IHS full-time

Pros – Up-to-date technology
Room for advancement
Good benefits

Cons – Poor integration of acquired companies
Poor planning and execution
Poor communication
Lack of accountability
Unstable environment

Advice to Senior Management – Do a better job of making decisions regarding policies and procedures for every job function and then stick to those policies and procedures, rather than changing things every few months, which keeps employees in a constant state of confusion and unsure of how things should be done from day to day.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at IHS full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good comp and benefits, growing company

Cons – Lost its way. Lack of leadership. Poor policies for growing and maintaining talent.
Little investment in R&D and development of innovation. Most investment is focused on acquisition not development of existing businesses.
They don't live their values.

Advice to Senior Management – It is all about the people! Invest in the existing business and new products.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at IHS full-time for more than a year

Pros – Some very smart people working on some truly amazing things.

Cons – The organization of the company is a bit schizophrenic. They do relatively frequent layoffs to "trim the fat". Not always ready to embrace new technology, which leaves them behind the curve.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at IHS full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Work-life balance is excellent, and technical employees are intelligent and easy to work with; bottom-level management is reasonable; IT is responsive - I had the necessary equipment to do my job; compensation is reasonable, and day-to-day environment is professional

Cons – There is a poor management culture at the middle-to-C-level: a culture of telling higher-ups what they wish to hear, rather than the truth, or your informed opinion. Design meetings are like Kabuki theater: figure out what the senior person in the room is thinking, and then agree with that. Some Director-level managers have fired people for single disagreements. Penny-pinching attitude toward choice of architecture: even highly-profitable projects were starved for resources. Poor collaboration among departments - general dysfunction in communication.

There seemed to be an emphasis on pleasing stock analysts: cut expenses for the sake of cutting expenses this quarter, and don't worry about longer-term profitability or viability. I don't believe that the CEO or his direct reports are pumping the stock with an intent to dump it, but the relentless pace of acquisitions and emphasis on immediate satisfaction of metrics left little time to address the issue of the dysfunctional, bloated, and unproductive middle management.

Advice to Senior Management – Management is bloated: far too many Directors and Senior Directors. There is a chronic love affair with off-the-shelf packages from external providers in place of internal development of solutions. Nothing wrong with using pre-built tools when appropriate, but you should stick with your decisions once you make them - constant reversals mean nothing ever gets completed.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend