There are better places to work. - Senior Software Engineer Thomson Reuters Employee Review

2.0
Feb 24, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

If you want experience working in the financial services industry, this is a good place to get experience. They are a technology focused company. A good place to learn new technologies. The technology management is awful, but if you can work in spite of poor management, you can succeed.

Cons

Draconian management. The management can only be described as incompetent. Because Rockville is not their headquarters, they are mainly focused on giving a good appearance to those in New York. Their incompetence creates problems and then they brag to NY about how they made everyone come in over the weekend to fix a problem they created. The staff turnover is very high and the impression I had was this was a good thing. The philosophy was to treat employees badly, or treat employees badly in the hopes they'll quit to save on severance. They try to create an atmosphere of you had better not slack off or else. What ends up happening is the good employees quit and the bad employees live in fear of being fired. On top of it all, they're trying to move as much as possible to India.

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5.0
Apr 10, 2026
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Pros

Great environment and people. Lots of overtime available and bonuses during busy season.

Cons

I really enjoyed this job so the only con I can think of is that it is seasonal.

3.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of wonderful benefits and the most competitive parental leave I have found in the US job market

Cons

Depending on the organization you work within, you could be working for leadership that expects sales reps to smooth over and fix every single mistake that is made. A lot of these mistakes are because they haven't yet recovered from acquiring new companies and they haven't absorbed CRMs and data correctly. There are many different teams to work with to get the simplest projects done. It feels like the companies values are really in place because they expect the employees to take responsibility for their lack of systems in place supporting them.

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