Coleman Research Reviews

Pros

Good Management, Good work life balance, interesting clients/industry

Cons

Lack of meaningful Skill Development

Pros

Coleman Research was an amazing company with even better people. My colleagues were insightful, thoughtful and willing to lend a helping hand at any time. While it was a hybrid job (half virtual, half in person), it felt like I became very close with everyone rather quickly. They helped me learn and grow at a fast rate and made me feel accepted and a valued member of the team. Management found the right balance of being professional and personable. I would advise anyone looking to work in the expert network space to look no farther than Coleman Research. Nothing but great experiences and great people at this company!

Cons

I honestly can't think of any downsides to working here. The pay is fair (about $52,000 annual with bonus opportunities) and the work flow is easy to learn and enjoyable on a daily basis. The only thing I can think of is they have a 9-6pm work day and 9-5pm on Fridays. I personally would rather an 8-5pm in order to get off a little earlier, or even the classic 9-5pm. But regardless, time flies when your enjoying yourself and that is not a problem at Coleman Research!

Pros

Great company to work for. Really cares about their employees. Great employee moral, everyone has great tenure.

Cons

Can be challenging but is really great.

Pros

1) Fully remote, with option to go into any office whenever you want 2) Does not require any hard skills 3) Get to hone soft skills: communication, sales, client sourcing and retention 4) Potential to make a lot of commission money 5) At times, the sales aspect of it is surprisingly fun 6) The environment is collaborative, with coworkers usually available/willing to help you tackle tough assignments if you get overwhelmed.

Cons

1) It is a sales/recruiting job, no matter what they tell you to the contrary. If you don't like sales or recruiting, then don't do this job. 2) Can be very fast-paced; when a client request comes in, you have to start on it immediately and give them something (names of experts who are already in network and/or potential experts to recruit into the network). Otherwise, GLG or Alphasights will get there before you. 3) Work consists largely of data entry and spamming people on professional networking sites. 4) As a sales job, you were evaluated based on how many experts you brought into the network, how many consultations you set up, etc. However, your success was often heavily influenced by factors outside your control, such as difficulty of client requests, whether or not they had also reached out to other expert-network firms, etc. 5) Long hours. Was required to work from 8:30 to 6:30 every day, but this was fine. The problem was that potential experts were often in very different time zones, meaning you often needed to stay online until late at night. 6) Coleman has strict compliance requirements, and their clients usually have their own as well. Depending on how restrictive the requirements are, it can be extremely difficult to find a compliant expert who is also a good fit for an engagement. 7) Figuring out which experts could help answer client's industry-specific and geography-specific questions is really hard. This is especially true because the teams are organized by client type (investmentment management, consulting, etc) rather than by industry specialty (like it seems other firms are). In short, you often have very little idea what exactly you're looking for, since you probably have no knowledge about what qualities - companies, roles, etc - an appropriate expert would have. 8) The clients often ignore you for several days at a time. This leaves you in the dark as to whether they still want to do a consultation, another company has aready gotten them in touch with a good expert, or if they just want to give up on the consultation entirely. This happened quite often, and resulted in a lot of wasted time and frustration for both myself and the experts whom I'd been sourcing.

Pros

- Handful of good colleagues

Cons

- Pay is very low and commission restructuring is going to cause high performers to take a pay cut ** If you are a Coleman Employee: DO NOT listen to them when they instruct you to “keep your salary a secret”. That is a glaring red flag. Any company who is paying their employees fairly and has sound reasoning behind discrepancies in pay would encourage salary transparency instead of discouraging it. Talk about your salary with your coworkers. You have every right to do so. - No longer work from home (despite not having enough spaces for all of their employees to come in because this company is based out of WeWork) - Lied about unlimited PTO - HR is aware of issues with management, including managers bullying employees and creating a hostile work environment. Despite this, these managers are still employed while many of their subordinates left the company due to this treatment. - Laid off many employees and looks like they are trying to drive more turnover with new policies

Pros

It offers a great remote work opportunity to learn about a number of different markets and opportunity for promotion quickly.

Cons

Being remote makes it tough to establish working relationships and makes it difficult to receive serious training as a young employee.

Pros

Some positions are still WFH, many have transitioned to Hybrid, still not required to be in the office 100% of the time.

Cons

Company removed commission and replaced it with capped bonuses tied to quarter success. All current associates are losing money with inflation due to this new change.

Pros

Great-love it-wonderful culture & people

Cons

nothing negative to say just writing this because glassdoor requires me to if I want any meaningful information from this website

Pros

Good base salary and helpful coworkers.

Cons

Long hours, not very helpful work environment from higher ups.

Pros

The people are great and there are lots of opportunities to grow within your role if you are open to them.

Cons

There are periods of high turnover, and the work culture is like you are still in school. There is no flexibility in your working hours, and you frequently work late and are required to work a 12 hour shift every month at the associate level. You feel like you're chained to your desk and, even as a significant individual contributor, feel like there is zero flexibility in your daily working scheduled.