Thomson Reuters Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Fairly competitive pay
Good work life balance

Cons – Limited opportunity for advancement if not in headquarters office
Repeated reorgs

Advice to Senior Management – Retain long term employees with knowledge and relationships. When considering a reorganization view your employees as family instead of head count. Stay competitive with salaries to retain high performing employees with relationships with key clients.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Thomson Reuters

Pros – Good work life balance. Opportunities in many locations.

Cons – Difficult to move jobs to other businesses.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Great people. Good life and work balance. Lots of opportunity. Very good vacation plan. Good tools for communication offered by company.

Cons – Too many meetings. Salary is not as competitive as it could be. At times, globalization leads to inefficiencies. Easy to get lost in such a large company. Open floor plans promote communication but restrict privacy.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Thomson Reuters full-time

Pros – Aim is high, and the resources are among the best in the industry. The only thing holding us back is ourselves, and we're working on it.

Cons – Story bureaucracy. I'm not sure it is different anywhere else, but sometimes it seems to take forever to get a story out.

Advice to Senior Management – Work on ways to keep standards high but simplify editing process. Keep up the efforts to get poorer performers to up their games or move on. Keep aiming high.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Overall an ok place to work.

Cons – Not much chance for movement.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Thomson Reuters

Pros – Good benefits, somewhat flexible work schedule (depends on manager). Company has been profitable and has payed profit sharing for the time I've worked for the company.

Cons – Benefits have decreased over the years, company becoming more focused on cost and managing by the numbers. Raises have been very small over the past five years with major bumps only coming when conditions change (i.e. removal of overtime pay).

Advice to Senior Management – focus on retaining your people and improving their skillsets instead of micromanaging and focusing on contrived metrics.

Current Employee – been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – good work environment
Flexi timing
friendly people
Experienced

Cons – Harassing Human Resource and the Salary

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – The F&R side of the house finally realizes that it must become more efficient but years later than it should have. There are pockets of decent people but way too much weight is given to glossy presentations and who your friends are. There is some cool and big technology, with a lot of emphasis on performance. Pay is on par but bonuses have been getting hit. Work life balance is actually pretty good but some of that is because people are not motivated

Cons – Pretty dysfunctional culture, senior management that knows the right buzz words, but generally too late. Zero clue in how to really execute anything. Too many powerpoint jockies trying to sound great and doing very little actual work. Dead weight. Products are flawed, so no matter what, they have some serious issues. The technology is too complex in a bad way- it should have been fixed. Way too many silos. Just try to understand the product catalog. I dare you. Management has almost no courage (unless you are in private, where then the truth flows, but of course nothing can be done)

Advice to Senior Management – The Thomson family needs a wake up call, first off. They should clean house a few levels down from the CEO. Too many of the same people doing the same old things in new jobs. probably need to loose some revenue to improve profit. You are a tech company. Zero-tech managers are of little use. Someone is going to figure out how to do it faster and cheaper.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than a year

Pros – TR is a solid company on the whole with good benefits and makes an effort to keep employees in the loop with newsletters etc.
- Company happy hours
- Coffee, tea, occasional leftover luncheon food in the break room
- Co-workers can be great/teamwork

Cons – - Not much/any room for professional growth
- Handholding when interacting with clients
- Some favoritism/tenure to the detriment of the company/morale
- Seldom able to work from home

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in your employees. Listen to their concerns, believe in them and treat them like adults. Some teams have incredibly high turnover and that is worth looking into.

Current Employee – been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – The company has a very flexible work schedule - easy to work from home when needed, or adjust hours as needed.

Cons – The company has low pay compared to the competition as well as vs your peers, very high cost / low coverage healthcare, extremely low employee morale, high turnover (voluntary or involuntary).