Informa reviews

3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,707 total reviews)
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Stephen A. Carter

71% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Informa has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,707 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Informa employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Jun 6, 2026

Smile to your face, stab you in the back

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Medical insurance & charity days

Cons

The pay is well below industry standard and there is no meaningful effort to address it. For a company that talks endlessly about valuing its people, the compensation tells a very different story. The culture is entirely performative. Everyone is smiling in meetings while quietly watching their backs. There is a tight-knit clique embedded at every level of management, and if you're not part of it, your progression is effectively capped from day one. Promotions are handed out based on who you know and how much you agree with leadership, not what you actually deliver. To top it off, after normalising flexible and remote working, the company abruptly forced everyone back into the office with little justification and even less notice. It felt less like a business decision and more like a control measure — a way to keep tabs on people rather than trust them to do their jobs.

1.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting industry Travel Ability to learn Some really good teams to work with like the old Black Hat, Former horizontals team in Tech etc. As much as teams are mostly lead by white men and an old boys club, only units worth considering are Informa Markets or Connect. avoid the new Festivals unit at all costs.

Cons

Overworked. This company will work you to the bone. Leadership lives in an ivory tower. They will travel business class but demand you fly economy for 24 hour plus travel journeys when they make over 50% margins on deals. Avoid the Festivals unit as it is filled with leadership of the old Ascentials with literally no hires or opportunities to anybody else. Decisions are made based on how Lions and Money 2020 worked but that company was acquired so their ways of working were clearly not great. The old Ascentials teams have 60-100 people in sales and 100 plus operations teams while the Informa brands that got thrown in there have to survive on a third of that. A new head/President appointed to the wonderful brand of Black Hat has created such a toxic environment that leaders and team members are dropping like flies and moving on. Yet, Festivals leadership is stuck in ways that are archaic and will run the unit into the ground. Avoid sales or marketing roles in this unit especially in management. Plans are awful for managers, growth negligible and opportunities non-existent.

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