LexisNexis Reviews

Pros

-Strong company financially
-Tenured employees with a great deal of knowledge
-Products and Services that MAKE A DIFFERENCE
-Job Security in an overall tough Market

Cons

-Promotions/Advancement opportunities are given to individuals that a liked vs. those who work hard and have the skill set to excel.
-Your manager has all the leverage in the WORLD, if you have a good one you DO WELL, if you don't you WON'T
-HR is an extension of management, therefore improper practices and behaviors are never properly addressed.

Advice to Senior Management

You have to ask the right questions (they will never be honest on their own)...Middle management is too insecure to bring the real challenges that could impact future growth and leave the company open to being undermined by the competition, to you. They are afraid to be found incompetent, uneducated and inexperienced, therefore they continue to operate as if EVERYTHING is GREAT, when in fact we are close to the bottom falling out of the entire organization.

Pros

Paid time off
Colleagues
Working from home
Benefits

Cons

Executive leadership has lack of strategy.

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in employees, Invest in product management, Share more information regarding strategy

Pros

Nice benefits
Flexible work schedule
Friendly people

Cons

Not a lot of cameraderie
Traditional environment

Pros

-great people,
-good benefits
-location
-that is all I really have. I'll start cons early: pay is way to low.

Cons

-management needs to figure out the direction of the company. Constant reshuffling of management and layoffs.
-Comp plan is pretty terrible.

Advice to Senior Management

How about sticking with a plan and going with it. People expect constant changes and listening to outside consultants for info that is dated. Zero innovators.

Pros

Depending on the group you land with, you can have great responsibility right off the bat. Overall pretty smart people to work with.

Cons

Corporate matrix is a huge cluster. The corporation breeds non-risk takers. Bureaucracy is palpable. Compared to its revenues and scale, pretty flat organization, but that also means it takes a long time to move up.

Advice to Senior Management

Break-down barriers between groups. Encourage cross-functional communication. Perhaps create more levels so you can reward people who do work hard. Stop the vicious cycle of re-orgs and try to keep people in the strategic groups the same so that things get done and you don't waste your money on consultants who work on the same case over and over again because their contacts keep changing and each time they start from scratch.

Pros

Flexible work schedule. Do not really care the hours you put in. Just get the work done.

Cons

Heavy work load. As people leave no back end replacement.

Advice to Senior Management

Too much work for the number of people.

Pros

People are nice and intelligent for the most part. Very flexible about working from home and time off. Benefits are average and reasonably comprehensive

Cons

Small pay increases. Too much organizational shifting. Very poor C level leadership. No vision or leadership. They depend on things bubbling up from the troups.

Advice to Senior Management

Learn how to lead. Make decisions once in awhile. Get rid of matrix management. It doesn't work. Too many budget items (infrastructure, shared services) are out of budget holders control - should be removed and be in a corporate pool.

Pros

Benefits, flexible work schedules, and that pretty much covers it

Cons

Salary is so low it's insulting. Too many reorganizations, which bring outs the worst in people - paranoia, back stabbing, in-fighting. Staff reductions have gone too deep; good people are let go, no back filling, work gets piled onto the staff that's left. You have to work insane hours just to keep up. If you don't keep up with the work, you're shown the door.

Pros

Decent benefits
Good amount of paid time off
Rank-and-file employees reasonably supportive of each other
Intelligent co-workers
Name recognition of company
Some ability to work from home, but this depends on your job description
This is the worst recession/depression since the 1930s, and it is a steady job.

Cons

I want to be fair while writing this, because I think some employees come on here and are very angry when posting & get carried away. I'm going to attempt to give my own cool-headed perspective about working for LexisNexis, and I think it's representative of conversations I've had with co-workers at my level. My experience may not be the same as that of other positions in the company, as it seems many managers come on here and are very pleased with the company and themselves. However, I seldom hear that level of enthusiasm from rank-and-file employees such as myself, who often seem discouraged with their circumstances.

First, the general perception among rank-and-file employees, whether true or not, is that promotions are limited to "favorites" of management, and that hard work, dedication to the company and general competence may not get you anywhere. Someone on this website said that management promotes their "golfing buddies," and that complaint sounds familiar.

Second, there doesn't seem to be much of a career path for employees, anyway. The number of positions you can move up into would seem to be limited, and these positions have been eliminated or consolidated often in the past.

That brings us to the third item: there have been a lot of reorganizations and shifts in management over the years. You hear ancedotally of people who have had five, ten or more changes in management in a decade.

Fourth, there's also been a lot of offshoring of work in a highly organized fashion and an accompanying elimination of jobs in the U.S. I've known people who've been with the company for 15 years or more shown the door.

Fifth, there's an obsession with metrics to the point that rank-and-file employees feel as if they're being monitored constantly. They feel that they have very little chance to change any of their work circumstances, and the work load that they have can be excessive.

Sixth, some managers can be very smug, unpleasant people (and a number of them post on here, apparently) and seem to want to dictate terms to the employees rather than being first among equals. This causes resentment.

Seventh, the pay just does not increase much for rank-and-file employees year by year unless they are promoted. There are small percentage increases available based on merit, but I hear complaints that these don't equal cost of living increases.

In general, while in these economic times, one's grateful for any employment at all, I cannot describe my experience with this company as a happy one overall. Obviously, not everyone here agrees, but I would like to leave when the right opportunity presents itself.

Advice to Senior Management

Current management does finally seem to realize that some of us are not pleased with our lot, but, so far, I've not seen any changes made that impact rank-and-file employees significantly. If you want to recruit and retain the best, most motivated people, you really do need to listen to our complaints. Thanks!

Pros

- Good place to work if you want to be exposed to technology without working for a technology company
- Has a good policy regarding time off for charity work
- Working from home is not frowned upon and is part of the culture

Cons

- For large parts of the company, pay is not competitive in certain regions of the country
- Company should be a little more generous with "paid time off". LexisNexis combines sick days and vacation days into one "paid time off" category

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure managers are not just focusing on metrics, but metrics that matter and make an impact on customer satisfaction.