TransUnion LLC Reviews

Pros

Benefits, flexibility, family work/balance, fmriendly atmosphere

Cons

Upper management is in disarray

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate more with lower level

Pros

We have very talented people and they don't mind to share knowledge.

Cons

Upper management is going to lead the IT department down to a wrong path.

Advice to Senior Management

Please use the right tool to achieve High Availability if you are so obsessed with 99.9% up time! "One-size-fits-all" won't work.

Pros

Wonderful coworkers who care about the company and quality of work. The benefits are fantastic. Managers really care about their employees.

Cons

As with any business, politics and money motivate and sometimes it does not seem right. Deadlines rule all, even if the quality of work suffers.

Pros

1. Good benefits
2. Work Life balance

Cons

1. No growth opportunities
2. Senior management doesn't appreciate your work.

Pros

Advanced Infrastructure, good opportunity to learn and grow
Very close to the train station
Laid back environment
Good work life balance

Cons

Very process oriented company
Red tape and beauracracy. Can't get anything done without going throught layers of approvals
Do not trust the Managers I report to

Pros

International projection, institutionalized processes, Nice place of work, very nice interaction with senior managers in all the world

Cons

Gossip amongst directors, there is no respect among senior employees at least in Mexico

Advice to Senior Management

Respect the lines of command, Do not interfere with the work of other areas

Pros

The employee community is very strong, almost seems to be a cult sometimes. Once everyone accepts you, you are in.

Cons

The technology in which we work with is old and outdated. Leadership has no direction or knowledge regarding software engineering.

Advice to Senior Management

Quit touting that we don't do technology, for there is plenty engineering that takes place in this company. Invest into decisioning technology.

Pros

Extremely structured when it comes to projects
Opportunity for lateral moves, because they do a lot of internal hiring.
Laid-back environment.
Relatively good in reporting big changes affecting the company.

Cons

No support for educational / professional growth. The HR educational offerings are sorely lacking and conference travel is usually restricted to the city or to a small budget.
So structured to the point that it can be crippling; projects move forward extremely slowly.
Almost no women in executive leadership roles and very few minorities (except Indian) in leadership.
Extremely political; certain areas of the company clearly have more power than others, regardless of what the org chart indicates. If you're caught on the wrong side of the politics, expect to be managed out.
Though lateral moves are possible, it's difficult to move up.
Minimal promotions and annual increases; negotiate for a decent salary up front because it changes very slowly.

Advice to Senior Management

Look into more diversity at all levels.
Be aware of new changes in the industry and think about implementing.
Examine the PMO / project process; the slow changes are crippling and there are ways to move forward thoughtfully, but quickly.
Do a better job reaching out to employees outside of the main building / office.
Stop being so reactive to competitor moves. Be more proactive.

Pros

- challenging work environment
- interesting analytics environment
- company is poised for growth
- stable business/industry
- cash cow company, if you can get into the profit sharing pool
- trying to transform into a world class corporate culture

Cons

- legacy corporate culture does not know how to execute & deliver major initiatives & transformational changes
- legacy corporate culture is reactive, not proactive.
- legacy corporate culture needs more structured delivery/execution skills - to be consistently predictable
- need better alignment of IT with the Business to deliver the right solutions
- too frequent reorganizations
- to much work to do and not enough staff
- TU needs to hire highly skilled/talented workers, but does not want to pay the market price for them
- privately held by Pritzker family, so their family issues affect this company

Advice to Senior Management

Executive management is focusing on costs too much - but that is understandable in the current environment. I just hope that when things settle down, management will invest inn the foundational infrastructure and people who help keep the business going.

Pros

I liked it very much
Great ppl
great place

Cons

Too much work very less ppl

Advice to Senior Management

Be more interactive