Capital IQ Reviews

I worked at Capital IQ full-time for more than a year

Pros – - At the beginning you learn a lot about financial statements
- They tried to give you some benefits, like gym membership, office parties once in a while, etc.
- Good wages and bonuses for the local economy.

Cons – - Secretive way of doing stuff, paranoid behavior in regards to use of computers.
- They expect you to be a cog in the machine. All ideas need to come from above, from some Ivy League kid in the US. Consequently, if you work like a monkey you will advance, even if your qualifications are not the best.
- Class membership seems to be important (but I suppose this is the same in every transnational corporation).
- It gets quickly boring and repetitive. A robot could do it, and in fact you start imagining apps that could do the job. Is not like they´re going to implement it anyway. Time to start surfing the Net!

Advice to Senior Management – Meritocracy. Learn from companies like Google. If somebody has an idea, at least think about it. You are going to try to implement it anyway three years later when there is no way out. Some people are not good as cog machines, and that is why they leave.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Capital IQ full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Balanced work-life
- Friendly and relaxed work environment
- Good pay for amount of hours worked

Cons – - Career path uncertain
- S&P culture has changed the start-up atmosphere
- NOT finance

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

I have been working at Capital IQ full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Company Policies, work life balance

Cons – Transperancy, restricted growth after sometime

Advice to Senior Management – none

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

I worked at Capital IQ full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – None, over the past 1 1/2 years

Cons – Paranoid culture, cost cutting with ill reward, talented employees leaving, lack of product innovation

Advice to Senior Management – You are likely in the wrong business and are set up for failure. CEO is a glorified talk-show host.

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

I have been working at Capital IQ full-time for more than a year

Pros – - No pressure, Chill environment
- Coworkers are nice

Cons – The company lacks vision or direction since the S&P take over. The CEO is arrogant and is not afraid to reduce salary across the board at the cost of driving every last talent away. Both of the guys who interviewed me quit within 6 month. People are leaving every week, it's truly sad. To cut cost, the company outsources a lot of development to india. The quality is greatly reduced. Then, as a bandaid fix, they hired Microsoft consultants at 500 dollars an hour, while handing out yearly raise less than the natural inflation rate!
It feels like the upper management are clueless of what they are doing.

Advice to Senior Management – Resign. You guys are so terrible it's helpless!

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

I worked at Capital IQ as an intern for less than a year

Pros – - high level of commitment towards work
- good interpersonal skills and very friendly yet professional work environment
- opportunities within and across the industry

Cons – - initial salary packages are little low

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

I have been working at Capital IQ

Pros – very flexible working hours, nice colleagues and ability to deal with many financial instruments across different asset classes

Cons – The job doesn't follow the current financial market, so it is quite hard to get any investment knowledge. The opportunities for promotion are also very limited.

I worked at Capital IQ full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great entry level work, resume builder, benefits, telecommuting.

Cons – The company is too political, and to get ahead, you must kiss up to your manager and/or management. Lou Eccleston and his Thomson cronies have not brought any value or market driven products to the marketplace. As a result, he has taken the easy route by making a name for himself by reorganizing and most importantly, cutting costs. Reducing staff, salaries, & compensation is the standard which has made for a very unhappy, insecure workforce that is fearful of losing their jobs.

Advice to Senior Management – McGraw Hill needs to change management and create a culture that values and rewards it's employees from the bottom up. The company needs to make a real investment in market research in order to better understand the needs and wants of customers in order to bring real, market driven products instead of forcing unwanted products to customers.

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

I have been working at Capital IQ full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Good working environment, supporting managers

Cons – No cons of working in this company

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Capital IQ full-time

Pros – Good work/life balance.
Pays well enough.

Cons – Lou Eccleston, CEO, and Bob Coppola, CTO, in particular, are clueless to what really is going on within the company, and proven by their actions (or lack thereof), have no idea how to run a technology company.
Resources are spread too thin and product development has essentially ceased to exist.
Political nature of a large and old company makes it extremely inefficient to do almost anything.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop hiring current or former Thomson employees. That company is a mess and we will just end up their same dismal position if we do not change our ways

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