No sails for their sinking ship - Senior Leadership Role Wood Mackenzie Employee Review

2.0
16 Jan 2025
Recommend
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Pros

• Very flexible work schedule, but dependent on your role and manager. Upper management says one thing where Team level goes by their choice. • There are some great people on the teams to help and collaborate with.

Cons

• After all these years, they still cannot get it right or figure it out, and after multiple acquisitions and change of hands, it just keeps getting worse with the constant resets. • You say you want to be a global company, but you rely too heavily on your UK office, which is out of touch with your global audience and, more so, your American audience, to which most of your products are being pitched! • There is a massive lack of diversity, which probably concerns them constantly trying to hire in the UK for roles. • The UK office practically makes all major managerial decisions • Pay and job level are not decided by your skill set or year of experience. • Teams within departments are siloed and focus only on their business objectives. Specific teams are often left to scramble, being last in the process or priority. Others lack mutual respect or assistance for various teams. • Pay employees' salaries below market value and inflation and have begun to outsource to lower-cost locations for talent. • Poor leadership, especially on the executive front. They seem super out of touch with the team’s needs, and complaints fall on deaf ears. • Low career advancement.

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5.0
31 May 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance and interesting work

Cons

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3.0
15 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Appreciated working with smart, driven colleagues; they were truly experts in their fields. The rigorous schedules we were on were strictly maintained, which usually made for a very organized structure and workload.

Cons

Leadership went through many changes and acquisitions while I was there. The mission seemed to keep changing, and it wasn't easy to maintain consistency in our reports with such leadership changes. Market analysts were often pulled onto consulting projects but were not paid as consultants. This is what pushed me to leave.

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