Solid Employer with Great Outlook but room for improvement - Anonymous employee Equifax Employee Review

4.0
3 June 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Total Compensation package is fair and competitive to the market; Career Opportunities are available IF you put your career in your hands - talk to your manager, network, keep an eye on the internal postings. Many employees are promoted from within; Decent benefit programs, including med/dental/vision, 401k with company match, great history of bonus payouts; High level of flexibility with work schedule, work from home opportunities and overall balance; Growing company with strong stock price

Cons

Not unlike any other company, there are some managers and some employees who tend to look out for themselves and are not willing to help others progress. The practice of "survival of the fittest" during performance management fosters this type of behavior unfortunately. At Equifax, this is known as Meritocracy and is drilled down from the CEO. Employees are vetted against each other in something called calibration and only a certain percentage are allowed to receive high ratings each year during performance reviews. It tends to force employees to work as individuals rather than as a team because the entire team cannot win in the end. A bit of a frustrating process that tends to foster mediocracy in performance as a result. No employee stock purchase plan. Somewhat low annual merit increases for majority of employees (due to meritocracy described above). Silo'ed environment in many areas where the left foot doesn't know what the right is doing.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

My direct manager. Comp plan if you’re lucky enough to find several whale clients, and if you’re lucky, the commission is approved.

Cons

There are a lot. First, office politics. Equifax expects employees to be very corporate and robotic. Metrics metrics metrics. 100% focused on revenue, not customers. Metrics, metrics, metrics. PIP overuse. Even when you’re 150% to yearly plan 6mo in, they expect 300%. Make sure to keep receipts. Senior management will find the most ridiculous ways to push reps out, continently right before a huge payout of a very delayed commission plan. (Sell something in Jan 2025, you will only get a fraction of commission until June 26). That’s if the exception committee approves payout (which never happens). If you sell a big deal, don’t expect to get paid 100% of what the plan says.

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