Pros
- People are nice for the most part. - No one will stop you if you decide to quit. They literally don't care who comes and goes for some reason...
Cons
Product: - 90% of the research is low quality, "refreshed", or extremely dated. - Your company could save money by simply going to Wikipedia (unless it's about vendor information, which could be helpful.) Career: - good luck on that. Basically, there isn't any unless you wait a really really long time and other people leave. Also, as is true of human nature, favoritism runs rampant. - They don't actually provide training like they used to. Everything has become DIY, and has nothing to do with your role - the only training is for how to get clients to come back for more research or how to work with sales. - They also record every client interaction and provide that to anyone in research/advisory can listen and watch and "train" yourself by listening to others. Most don't know they are being recorded. Culture: - its a "yes-man", kool-aid culture with fairly high attrition...people leave because they want real opportunities, paid market salary or better, or all the above. - everything is geared towards sales - even if you aren't in sales. Every interaction we have is supposed to create more sales and they encourage constant back-channel conversations with sales.