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4.0
14 Sept 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people are great to work with. The pay is good. The bonus and stocks option are great. The annual trip is fun.

Cons

Sales run the company so the rest are kinda swept to the side. So if you are not in sales there are times you feel left out.

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5.0
1 June 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- A supportive and friendly corporate culture - Generous bonus and share monetization policies - Open-door communication policy - New ideas and opinions are encouraged and listened to - Very social office - Great little perks – jeans and free bagels on Friday, free soda and juice, office right next to Tysons mall - "Work hard, play hard" attitude

Cons

This is a sales-based company, so if you’re not in sales, you sometimes feel pushed aside. However, the sales teams are what made the company so successful, and the benefits of working for a successful company outweigh those negatives.

2.0
25 Nov 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-nice office environment with free soft drinks -free donuts on fridays -yearly remote kick-off meeting for every employee to attend -unique data offering which focuses on wireless data

Cons

-very strange sales compensation based on monthly payments by customers; poor sales compensation -extreme favoritism of certain employees by management which lead to people being laid-off for no reasons; new employees are treated as "outsiders" and feel they are not part of the old regime which has been there forever and very protective of its turf -high turn-over due to firings or people leaving on their own; in 2-yr time frame there has been over 50 people who have left or fired -poor upper management who have been there since inception and do not have experience as senior managers in another company; the worst is the senior sales executives who do not have any sales management experience and are in charge of the sales group -niche data offering with differentiators being wireless info; larger competitors (such as West Government Services, Lexis-Nexis, Duns & Bradstreet, etc...) offer similar wireless data but include lots of other data such as financial, personal, legal, etc... -stress something else besides the "uniqueness" due to real-time updates and accuracy which customers do not really believe in and would not pay for with 30% premium over competitors

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