Lieberman Research Worldwide Reviews

I have been working at Lieberman Research Worldwide

Pros – Fun environment to be a part of. Everyone wants to be social and help each other out. They look out for us.

Cons – Some of the work can be tedious and boring, it depends on the clients you get to work with. Can be long hours

Advice to Senior Management – Promote equally across all business units.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Lieberman Research Worldwide

Pros – LRW is a smart, high-performing business that demands a lot from its employees. In return, employees get to work with and learn from a very intelligent, thoughtful, and enlightened group of people -- from senior management down the ranks. The company works with top-tier clients, and does high quality work.

Cons – Goal-setting tends to be overly aspirational, with company seldom "making its numbers." There is something of a culture of no-matter-what-we-accomplish-it's-never-good-enough.

Advice to Senior Management – Inject more celebration into the company's accomplishments and success.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Lieberman Research Worldwide

Pros – Interesting co-workers whom you can learn a lot from. Good location. Interesting projects. Opportunities to learn, grow and advance.

Cons – Long hours. People are expected to step up and take responsibility. Demanding clients.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more opportunities for employees to transfer/work with other teams.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lieberman Research Worldwide

Pros – Food at the mall is good but a little over priced. View of LA is cool from certain offices especially if you were an out of towner before joining the company. Some people are just plain brilliant but at the wrong place for the wrong reasons. With the current economy woes, to many any job will do (with great reason). Fortunately, this company has managed to stay above water during these tough times and can maintain job openings. My advice to any struggling soldier out there is to use this place as a stepping stone only if you have to....if an opportunity with less pay arises, weigh it out and consider it- ESPECIALLY if you are young.

Cons – To be quite frank with the potential of giving myself up here, I have worked with and for several companies as a consultant in the market research. Never in my 10+ years in the industry have I witnessed such unethical competitiveness- it took me a while to figure out that this practice stems down from upper management who basically brainwash their employees into thinking that in order to succeed, this is the sort of attitude that you need. After leaving, I still cannot believe that I stayed for more than a month. It's comparitive to the twilight zone. I look back and think oh my goodness, is that place so far beyond reality? A lot of young people which makes the place feel like a high school popularity contest all over again but the fact of the matter is, I didn't meet anyone that was remotely as cool as they made themselves out to be. How can you when you work 120 hours/week? The older people have typically been there for a longer period of time and I wish them the best because I understand that when you reach a certain point, it is so hard to make a career change. Anyway, if you do decide to work for LRW, don't forget where you came from. Don't let them make you feel otherwise and try to live your own life by staying under the radar. Don't try to prove anything because it is so easy to get into that mode. Do your thing and get out when another opportunity arises. To all you liebermanites reading this, yes- the grass is greener on the other side- I know you thought about it.

Advice to Senior Management – Get a life.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lieberman Research Worldwide

Pros – It's a job, not a good job, but you can tell people you are working. The turnover is so bad that if you stay just a little while, you will know many people at other companies, then you can get a better job if you network effectively. Oh, yeah and its a pretty ok location, right near the Century City mall.

Cons – Long, horrible hours. A culture where everyone stays late. Work gets dumped on you at the end of the day. They pay for dinner, but otherwise you're not getting paid to stay late. There were tons of people going out with each other within the company because you're working so many hours with these people. They promise clients these impossible deadlines at the expense of the lower level employees. They act like they're saving the world, but in reality it's just stupid consumer opinions. An extra day to get things right really wouldn't hurt the client in most cases and would probably improve the quality of the work. Tons of false deadlines and needless stress. I have also seen employees crying and one who actually had a mental breakdown.

This was my first job out of college. I regret taking this job. I did stay for a few years. It really soured me on working at any company. I thought that this was the way all companies treat their employees. I'm basically writing this entry to give some hope to the people starting out there. It doesn't have to be like that. I now make almost 4X what I did at this horrible place, I work normal hours, I do really interesting work, and my managers treat me with respect. Don't let them crush your self respect.

Trust your gut, I didn't. I had a really bad feeling during the interview, but being straight out of college, I didn't listen to that feeling that something wasn't quite right.

Advice to Senior Management – To Dave Sackman, try using 1 extra button on your shirt.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lieberman Research Worldwide

Pros – There are a lot of fun people to talk to. Some very talented young individuals. Food. Location.

Cons – You awake in the morning knowning that you will have to "find work" within the company so that you can stay productive, if you are not productive you recieve punishment. You also do not know what time you are going home because it is typical for someone to dump hours of work on your desk at 6pm. You get very little recognition if you are not upper management. The tasks are monotonous and the pay is decent.

Advice to Senior Management – I have seen employees crying. It would be a good idea to invest more in management training or communications classes on how to treat employees with dignity.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lieberman Research Worldwide

Pros – The opportunity to do high level work. To explore the most advanced analytic methods in interesting custom studies. To work with very knowledgeable and driven clients.

Cons – Being treated with little respect by the management.

Advice to Senior Management – Don't treat your employees as fungible assets.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lieberman Research Worldwide

Pros – If you're fresh out of college and looking for a marketing or management career, apparently this is the best bet. Promotion from entry-level associate to Research Manager typically happens less than a year from your hire date.

Cons – Long long long hours. Typical work day is more than 10 hours. Low pay. Management justifies low pay by pointing out how much overtime money you'll make thanks to, yes, the never-ending long days. Too many incompetent senior managers - workload not efficiently managed resulting in too many days spent racing to meet seemingly impossible deadlines. Zero morale boosting. VPs consider anyone who ever makes anything (including dying family members) more important than LRW -- unreliable. Lousy benefits. VP of human resources - just make sure any conversation you have with her is recorded or in writing. Overall employees are continually reminded they are 100% disposable.

Advice to Senior Management – Think - seriously think about the level of the employee (entry-level or admin vs. upper management) when looking at loyalty and productivity. A admin assistant who works late, comes in early, brings moral-boosting-yet-inexpensive ideas to the department should be praised. This should be upper management "expectations" not "entry-level dead-end" expectations. Your lower level, low-paid employees should only be expected to work 40 hour weeks and get the job done right. Any more effort than that (long hours, weekends, working during vacations, training, designing, workflow/efficiency remodeling) should be rewarded as exceeding expectations as these are all upper management-type efforts. Don't publicly mention buying a jaguar for your 16yr old immediately after removing bonuses for low-level (low paid) employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lieberman Research Worldwide

Pros – Not any that I can think of. Good location? It's a job.

Cons – They have fired people instead of promoting them or paying commissions. Lower level employees have zero interaction with clients and don't get very much experience. There is very little room for growth and senior management makes no attempt to help employees advance.

Advice to Senior Management – Motivate people! Allow more opportunities for growth.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Lieberman Research Worldwide full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great people, mostly. Some of the most brilliant I have worked with and that is saying quite a bit. All the people on the delivery side really work hard and are usually severly over qualified. They hire the best people.

Cons – Probably the one of the most technically naive companies I have ever worked for. They do hire the best but pay them as little as they can then use them in ways that would make the ancient pharaohs proud. I have never seen so many intelligent and great people forced into so much unnecessarily manual labor in my life. The leadership hails from the days before computers and it shows.

Advice to Senior Management – Work smarter, stop wasting so much talent. Promoting from within may not be such a great idea. I think anyone who stays more than 3 years cant be as valuable as most that leave in less than one. Get on top of those exit interviews.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend