LexisNexis Reviews

Pros

The products and customers are interesting and the people are bright and fun to work with.

Cons

Lack of a growth strategy, big bet investments have suffocated other potential growth opportunities, few opportunities for advancement if you are a minority or a woman.

Advice to Senior Management

You must not continue to accept mediocre senior leaders. The reason you can't get anything done is that you have consistently undervalued leadership skills in favor of financial acumen.

Pros

Great benefits offered
Able to wear jeans every Friday
Health and wellness programs run by management
Flexible hours--but need to be ok'd with supervisor
Typically slow paced when out of the busy season

Cons

The pay for is not comparable with other jobs dealing with confidential information.
Poor communication between management and employees
No face-to-face communication, everything is by e-mail (lose some effectiveness)

Advice to Senior Management

Try to communicate better with the employees. Most are unhappy after 6 months because of the workload and the low pay for the actual work being done.

Pros

Good benefits. High single digit growth. Big data technology which is company proprietary. Please read our Community Guidelines for more information about our review criteria.

Cons

More opportunities for old LN employees. Poor choice of technologies other than BIG data technology. Biased opinion on open source technologies

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

My colleagues are great to work with. There are some opportunities for growth. Not a very stressful place to work. Normal 8-5 work day most of the time.

Cons

Compensation is low compared to other companies.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve communication between departments, segments, and even members of the same team. Improve knowledge sharing.

Pros

1. Time off is great
2. Pay is great
3. Work flexibility is great

Cons

1. Limited opportunity for advancement
2. Limited opportunity to learn new technologies
3. Too much outsourcing of real work

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more opportunities!

Pros

Business focus typically does well even in bad economic times.

Cons

An increased desire from upper management to outsource/off shore jobs is really hurting the company and the local economy.

Advice to Senior Management

Re-think outsourcing and off shoring jobs specifically Customer Support. The outcome may not pay the dividends that are hoped for.

Pros

Base salary as sales rep are well ahead of most companies.

Cons

Compensation plans not good actually not even released! Changes in the sales leadership made at the beginning of the year gave us all hope. We suffered for the last three years with incompetent leadership. It was unfortunate that another change was made today. But again I must say that no matter who is put in this position it will be an improvement.

Advice to Senior Management

Stick with the current structure and do not make changes for several months. In that time conduct a study on the effectiveness of the sales force. Sales were better when there were fewer sales representatives. Shrink the size of the sales staff.

Pros

Good work/life balance. Low stress; great benefits; flexible schedule; great colleagues to work with; amenable to new ideas for product improvement.

Cons

Beauracracy is quasi-governmental. While ideas are accepted, don't expect recognition in the form of promotions or raises. Promotions can be hard to come by.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication with those under your org chart. Be honest and precise in explaining why raises or promotions are not forthcoming.

Pros

LexisNexis prides itself in corporate responsibility and promotion of Rule of Law. In certain areas of the company, great flexibility in hours and work-from-home opportunities. Most areas really, really care about its customers and their service to them.

Cons

2012 ushered in the Hall of Shame of leadership - instead of continuing to build on the strong foundation built over 10 years, the parent company issued certain "advice" and, unfortunately, instead of pointing out the success of the management style and increase in sales, they listened, cutting areas that were actually critical to the company's bottom line.

Advice to Senior Management

Review the successes of the former leadership and learn from their example. Yes, they made mistakes. You can learn from those as well and how to correct the area. You've got a great company, dedicated employees who really want to love where they work and, despite the crippling situation you've placed them in, continue to serve your customers to the best of their abilities. Instead of the lip service you're paying to corporate best values - given by industry leaders for years - do it.

Pros

Well respected name in legal community. Co-workers are like minded and intelligent for the most part. Good paycheck. Always acquiring new products which is great for sales people. Good place to work overall when you realize that the grass is not always greener on the other side.

Cons

Upper management talks a lot about valuing the people who work here but the words never come across to the employees in actions. This used to be a great place to work but it's definitely a much different atmosphere than a few years ago. Very stressful job. You don't realize how stressful it is until you leave it. Yes, there is I've after Lexis!

Advice to Senior Management

Show your people you care about their dedication and performance. Words speak louder than action. Talking about it at National Sales Meetings and proclaiming it during Spirit Week isn't resonating with your sales force. If you want to keep your best sales people pay them accordingly instead of decreasing their income via decisive comp plans. Pay has deceased steadily for the past 5 years.