Infogroup Reviews

Pros

Great clients. Opportunities exist but must be sought out .Ask for forgiveness v. permission. No shortage of smart, motivated colleagues

Cons

Legacy management team remaining from various acquisitions are dinosaurs. No digital media expertise. Overpaid. No accountability at mid-sr level mgmt.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue recent trend of hiring Sr managers from outside. Find and weed out remaining Sr. Managers whose skillsets are outdated

Pros

Co-workers are great in certain locations

Cons

Upper/senior management heavy with no communication

Advice to Senior Management

Start working with the teams - understand each arm of the business don't gloss over.

Pros

Co-workers were enjoyable, and some of the latest technologies were being used. Flexible work schedule and casual environment, and good location.

Cons

Lack of opportunities for adequate training. Senior management was partially made from original InfoUsa, and were lacking in knowledge of new technologies. If you questioned any of the business processes or decisions, you were cast as a trouble-maker. Management very seldom takes responsibility for poor decisions, and pretend to understand areas that they lack all knowledge in. There is an expectation that people work long hours to complete projects, and in many cases are using antiquated tools to perform modern day tasks. They don't want to spend money on technology that would save people work hours. Their penny-wise, pound-foolish mentality has caused them to lose many big clients.

Advice to Senior Management

Put money into technology and training, and rid Infogroup of the management that punishes those who speak truth to power. Lessen the fear that people are made to work under, and reward honesty and hard work instead of rewarding those who tell you only what it is you want to hear.

Pros

They have a decent product. However, they are so confused as to how to run the business job roles change on a monthly basis.

Cons

Was told we were about to hire 10 More people for our new business group. Next day they fired the whole group from VP down. They said they changed their minds.

Advice to Senior Management

They also just canned the CEO

Pros

while the individual employees are wonderful individuals who actually care about their product/project, success of infogroup, Upper management only cares about going "Green" and building a name for themselves. Middle Management from the old "Infousa" days are still playing their games where their favorite individuals are promoted, rewarded accordingly. If you are a honest, hardworking individual, you will not advance in the company.

Cons

Favoritism by Management of those they like, lack of building your skill set and providing challenging opportunities; expected that you are available 24/7 for under market wages and no recognitation of a job a well done. Expect layoffs and terminations for no reason, don't plan on bening honest and hardworking to move forward in your career, you just need to play your manager's game.

Advice to Senior Management

Educate, Reward, Recognize your employees. Stop the old politics from the "infousa" games and playing favorites. Current management team has sent a memo to all employees that they are NOT to talk to media regarding the current state of affairs or they will lose their job. This is worse than Vin Gupta days.

Pros

good location, very entrepreneur environment

Cons

too many changes, unsure of furture direction and focus of product offering

Advice to Senior Management

understand what business you acquired

Pros

Very good work / life balance in engineering. People are friendly and intelligent and genuinely want the company to succeed.

Cons

Management direction for technology severely lacking. Weak product management but improving all the time. Company says it's a technology company but is afraid of technology change.

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to encourage new technology development and redevelopment at all levels. Look towards business process improvements and stronger product management with more emphasis on business value, market analysis and technology leadership.

Pros

Good place to work when first starting out.

Cons

There has been a lack of communication with upper managment with new transitions. Benefits are terrible and have been getting worse. Salary is far below average. Reviews are set up by corporate to underscore you.

Advice to Senior Management

Set up programs to teach your employees, and not just certain divisions.

Pros

Good benefits, salary plus commission, industry leading company

Cons

low base salary, high employee turnaround

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

InfoGROUP is staffed with some great people who really care about the company and about what they do. They typically promote from within, which is good.

Cons

Promotions, raises, bonuses, reviews are all slow to come. You basically have to wait for an opening and get lucky.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't disregard your middle management or take them for granted. They are the people who make a LOT of infoGROUP really function.