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Intern - Anonymous employee Sustainalytics Employee Review

2.0
Feb 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice international environment and sustainable values at different stage of the business. Many young professionnals, friendly staff. The name of the company can be a real asset on the CV if you want to work in CSR, SRI or any other job related to investment or sustainability.

Cons

There is a huge gap between the recruitment process that make applicants think they are hired for high skills, and the reality of a boring internship without any value added to the work. The truth is you can work as an intern in Sustainalytics without any skills or knowledge because the tasks given to interns are very repetitive, nearly automated, without any responsibility or any value-added. Interns are a mean to build data bases and dedicated to the least interesting tasks, few knowledge or skills are provided. The low salary makes clear that Sustainalytics looks for cheap labour force and does not care about whether the work interns are provided with is interesting or enriching. While Sustainalytics is asking for skilled students and graduated, I only recommend this internship for a short period of time (2 months) and undergraduated students, not for full time interns looking for any responsibility or skilled work. The ethical values promoted by Sustainalytics are not reflected at all in the way interns are considered.

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5.0
Jan 29, 2024
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Pros

Quality leadership from Sustainalytics Great coworkers Collaborative working environment Good mission

Cons

Parent company is public with high-growth expectations Several positions eliminated globally in Q3 and Q4 2023, some due to ESG-backlash in US Very low diversity across all divisions Few options for internal mobility & promotions

1.0
Sep 15, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

It was a good place to start a career in ESG once upon a time. Work/life balance was great.

Cons

- Lack of innovative products = still trying to ride its legacy ESG product suite that was relevant years ago, but is severely limited compared to its competitors. Any attempt at new research or development is stalled or canned due to budget constraints. - Lack of vision = senior leadership has successively abandoned this company without a care for the 1000s of employees they left behind, only for them to be slaughtered by Morningstar-sanctioned layoffs. They made an Index person head of an ESG shop.... how inspiring. - Lack of compensation = Way below market. Even compared to other ESG data providers. - Lack of career growth = You are hired to fill a role, not grow a career. Very limited career development opportunities. - Lack of diverse leadership = For an ESG data provider, leadership has always been pretty male-centric (until all the senior men leave and they started promoting female leaders). I don't think Sustainalytics will exist in 2 years...

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