Argus Information & Advisory Services Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Argus Information & Advisory Services full-time for more than a year

Pros – Argus was a great place to start as an analyst - since you are surrounded by people who are intelligent and hardworking. The pay structure isn't bad either.

Cons – Long hours. High expectations from managers - and you are expected to stay late. Probably a better job for the fresh-graduates who can handle those work loads :)

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to the needs of your employees more.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Argus Information & Advisory Services

Pros – Exposure to CC Industry was beneficial

Cons – Work Crazy Amount of hours

Advice to Senior Management – Need to ease up a bit on lower level workers

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Argus Information & Advisory Services

Pros – Credit Card industry experts
Great work culture
Good interaction with Management

Cons – 50 hour work weeks at a minimum

Advice to Senior Management – Increase Base Salaries

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Argus Information & Advisory Services full-time for more than a year

Pros – You get to say you work as a consultant (although its somewhat misleading). There is room for rapid advancement and the ability to take on responsibility of managing a team a little bit more quickly than at other places.

Cons – Argus has a work culture that is very unkind to its employees. They treat new analysts without respect and do not 'trust' them with internet access until you become a manager which is 2-3 years out. As others have mentioned, employees are treated like replaceable factory line workers and doesn't really show any appreciation for their hard work.

Advice to Senior Management – Start respecting your employees and care about their professional growth. After about 6 months, the learning curve falls off and analysts do not continue to develop useful skills. At this point employees are seen as commodities. It is very unfortunate that analysts (and senior analysts) are not allowed internet access in order to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Argus Information & Advisory Services

Pros – Competitive compensation
Opportunity for advancement
Exposure to credit card industry
Very smart co-workers
Senior Management has significant experience within credit card industry
Company has great potential for growth and there is room to grow within the firm
Employees recognized for their hard work and efforts

Cons – Lack of company culture
Office located in White Plains
Poor work/life balance
Expensive commute from NYC

Current Employee – been working at Argus Information & Advisory Services

Pros – A. Great peers and co-workers
B. Fair salary
C. Projects resulting and involving great understanding of credit card industry and data management
D. Fast-paced environment

Cons – A. Senior management (I cant think of any exceptions) shows no respect for juniors and other team members
B. Senior management does no planning whatsoever. Due to a non-existence of planning, you are constantly managing "fire-drills" or emergency situations and playing catch-up
C. Senior management desperately needs management training (especially people management skills and retention skills)
D. Most of the senior management micro-manages to the core (There are a few exceptions)
E. Senior management does not have trust in their people

Advice to Senior Management – Please realize and believe "People are very critical to your success and they are your real strength"

Former Employee – worked at Argus Information & Advisory Services

Pros – 1. Above average salary in this economy (not nearly worth it for this hell)
2. Near New York City
3. Good colleague camaraderie (at the analyst level mind you, because you are all SUFFERING)
4. bagels and donuts on Friday, i guess

Cons – 1. They recruit from top schools for client delivery and lie to prospects by claiming you get to do consulting, learn about the CC space...well you don't. This is a programming job where you crunch SQL code all day long without learning what any of it means. No consulting. Not even gaining an understanding of the credit card space let alone basic consulting. It's like the movie Momento, DON'T BELIEVE THEIR LIES.

2. Everyone at Argus is disgruntled. Over the last 5 years something like 125 employees have left (this is not hyperbole). This place beats out all the i-banks as a shitty place to work.

3. Managers here are incompetent, selfish, and manipulative. They don't care about the professional growth of analysts and beat the living soul out of them. I personally witnessed one good manager, so you are playing a game of Russian roulette here.

4. They tell you that you are not expected to know SQL coming in. But you basically are. If you are not a whiz in SQL, expect hell and I promise that 6 months in you will either by searching for new jobs or if you are lucky enough not to be a foreign worker you will quit.

5. Aside from the terrible work conditions (ok, you might say, so every job is a grind, this is life) the point is that YOU DON'T LEARN ANYTHING RELEVANT TO WHAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN WHICH I MIGHT GUESS IS FINANCE AND CONSULTING. For good sakes, the world is a big place, don't take their offer.

Advice to Senior Management – Do the world a favor and LBO this company so it can be liquified. Otherwise, stop recruiting from top schools and claiming that Client Delivery is consulting. That's just plain cruel.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Argus Information & Advisory Services

Pros – Good Bonus
Fast promotion if you stick it out
Good co-workers

Cons – Management is not supportive of workers
Exploited to the max
Ridiculous Hours
Consulting is really just data supply

Advice to Senior Management – Provide better benefits

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Argus Information & Advisory Services

Pros – Couple of Management folks are really great...Peers are good and hard working as they are on the same boat. Bonus is good.

Cons – The Senior Management (senior not due to the designation) number of years I mean getting out of the college and starting a job then getting stuck to the job without any experience of management, ppl skills, treats you like servants or should I say slaves, if you have any question the response from management is I DON'T KNOW go and search for it then when you are not able to find it the same person will say Why didn't you asked.

Working hours are insane, no learning opportunities except looking at the data and verifying it meaning a simple QA no decent analysis required. Its more of a Assembly line. Majority of analysis is done by the upper management as to take the credit.

2 Development Units with a difference of day and night if you are lucky to be in the good group you will never leave this company trust me otherwise you will try to run away from hell.

Trust me the good reviews are done by the company's HR team as I know the level of frustration among the folks over here, most of the members are stuck as they work on OPT or H1 and their GC processing is also done by the company so they don't have any option of leaving.

Advice to Senior Management – Take some Management Courses and treat the employees like employees not slaves, try to smile and encourage members not curse them all times just to show that you know everything....Trust me you will find the same folks putting more efforts happily rather than working afraid of being yelled at. Please do proper planing before you start anything do not try to be over smart, give open opportunities to employees as they do also have brains and they can also come up with some good ideas.

By just changing your attitude you will be able to retain more employees willingly rather than trapping them by applying their Green Cards.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Argus Information & Advisory Services

Pros – Growth opportunities exist because turnover is high

Cons – Long working hours - 10hours a day to 11 hours easily during week days. U have to work in weekends too.

Advice to Senior Management – No one can work for this long hours on a long term basis. that is why everybody leaves in a year .

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend