Thomson Reuters Reviews in United Kingdom

I worked at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Really good benefits and official policies that make it clear that the company wants to be a good place to work. A really strong brand too.

Cons – There is a sense that management doesn't want make to make waves and may even place professional advancement above working for the best interests of the company. For example, a business unit head may have an "open door, open email" policy to encourage feedback, but employees would be rightfully reticent to expose themselves by making a suggestion. So, I think there is a bit of cynicism toward the "You can make a difference" message sent out by senior management. In fact, I would say that all internal communications are read with a collective smirk by anyone who has been there any length of time.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep trying to change the culture and beware of yes-men (and women). Think about the stock price long-term, not short-term.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Thomson Reuters

Pros – industry analysis opportunity.
decent salary (7000 USD per month)

Cons – busy work.
indoor work.
sometimes boring

I worked at Thomson Reuters as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – They are a global organisation with many different interests.

Cons – Some of the different sections feel a little disjoint from each other

Advice to Senior Management – Things could happen faster

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

I have been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – family friendly policies, easy to work from home, good benefits, easy to work in different capacities and take on new challenges

Cons – product development slow, too much "dead wood", too many experienced people made redundant and their jobs being outsourced to Asia which created an atmosphere of lack of responsibility and lack of knowledge, flagship product Eikon not up to scratch

Advice to Senior Management – become faster and more snappy and value your good and experienced people

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very good work/life balance. Extremely flexible, so long as you deliver on time. Management allow pet projects to be undertaken and show a genuine interest in their result

Cons – Pay is not linked to performance. Frustrating structure doesn't make it easy to collaborate across silo's, need to encourage agile teams across the organisation.

Advice to Senior Management – Tighter alignment of pay to performance.

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

I worked at Thomson Reuters as a contractor

Pros – Fantastic work-life balance, great location in Canary Wharf, offices are superb.
Your co-workers are hard working and care deeply about the brand
People are friendly and easy to get on with

Cons – In all my 15 years of contracting and consulting this is the first place I would turn down an extension at (and did). There is a culture of people being promoted and hired because they are liked.
Management are arrogant with no people skills and an "I know better than everyone else"
Politics at the top mean that unless your face fits, you will not proceed. I was not affected by this as I am a contractor, but it was so disheartening to observe.
People promoted because it was their turn
People made redundant because they were not liked
My senior manager was one of the most unprofessional people I have ever worked with and openly boasted of having favourites and about all of the complaints made against her in the past, as if they were a badge of honour.

Advice to Senior Management – Clear out your senior management team, especially within Net Comms, they have been there too long and think that because they have, they know more than others.

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

I have been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for less than a year

Pros – Good team and great workplace

Cons – low wage to start with and little salary review but great management

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

I have been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Flexible corporate culture in terms of family commitments, working from home when necessary, etc and also in terms of the work we are asked to do - innovation and personal projects are encouraged in my team. There are some smart people here. Good job security, on the whole.

Cons – Relatively poor pay for the financial services industry. Lack of direction from senior management in terms of product investment and focus over and above general slogans. Lack of clarity on how certain executive level initiatives (in terms of company restructuring) can actually be implemented successfully and without detriment to the business.

Advice to Senior Management – The executive team should ask their reports to look more closely at the specifics - people on the ground doing the work need detail. A seemingly endless reshuffling of executives has little to no bearing on decisions about products - and this is what customers care about.

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

I have been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Excellent work-life balance and flexibility with focus on womens' leadership

Cons – Average salary and no salary increase in the past few years

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Thomson Reuters full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – + Good benefits
+ Fair annual performance reviews
+ Intelligent co-workers

Cons – - Hard to drive change at times
- Large initiatives squeeze out more dynamic and innovative projects
- Poor annual pay rises for last 5 years

Advice to Senior Management – Set a respectable pay budget - at least inflation, and allow extra for promotions.
Encourage / enable innovation (not just coming up with ideas but actually taking them somewhere)

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend