S&P Reviews

Pros

Managers do no micromanage your work..

Cons

Expectation to do things w/o instruction.

Advice to Senior Management

Better communication.

Pros

The company is part of McGraw-Hill the book giant and has locatations in Mid-town, Penn Plaza and Wall St. The employees are friendly and supportive.

Cons

McGraw-Hill - S&P is one of many companies that have outsourced their IT jobs out to India and other countries to save on the "bottom-line". Big bucks in management pockets, but the down-side is that these companies through necessecity, become so rigidly structured, that there can be no forward IT movement or improvements for years. This is already evident in the timeliness of information that S&P can no longer provide, making company ratings obsolete.

Advice to Senior Management

If S&P is to remain viable as a Ratings/Financial Company, it can not be run under the management of or as part of a bookstore manager's mentality.

Pros

Great work atmosphere
Smart driven people

Cons

Compensation is not really aligned with hard work and results
not that challenging

Advice to Senior Management

Compensation and results/efforts should be correlated.

Pros

Work life balance
9 to 5 lifestyle

Cons

Dealing with managers and group heads that are more interested in "CYA" than in career development of people under them

Advice to Senior Management

Start reading some of the articles and get a clue about how the world views the company. You have an overinflated opinion of your place in the world. Its almost like an ostrich with its head in the sand!!!

Pros

Good pay, nice benefits, I would say competitive, but not outstanding in pay and benefits offered. Better than some, worse than others.

Cons

Layers of people defending their positions. A disconnect from the clients/products. Middle management more focused on how they look than how they or the company are actually doing.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut dead wood. Don't just shuffle people around to make them another manager's problem. Cut down on politics and jockeying for position. focus on doing what's right for the customers/company, and not what will get you a title or an office.

Pros

Support of time off needed for continuing education; promotes community involvement; and direct access to managment of companies.

Cons

Sometime work is not as challenging, management's strategy is not always communicated to other employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase compensation for advance education

Pros

As rating company it has some reputation. Lot of information about different domain loan banking good work place far from train station

Cons

None of the systems well integrated and team don't inform and cooperate with each other. not a good location for commute

Advice to Senior Management

Revise your scrum process...people with out technical back ground run the agile meeting and they gave examples which are far off from reality

Pros

Nice offices, good resources, reasonable pay. Access to a large knowledge base. Good canteen, opportunities to learn more skills, reasonable hours.

Cons

Poor department communication, dull and repetitive work, too much bureaucracy (a meeting had to be held for even the tiniest decision), overflow of emails that aren't relevant to the majority of people they are sent to.

Advice to Senior Management

Cut down on the meetings, not every decision needs to be made by committee.

Pros

Supportive learning environment for a young person just out of college.

Cons

After several years, job tasks can become dull at times.

Pros

Prestige, methodology of work, leading franchise, versatile approach.

Cons

Compensation is not top. At least at internship level.