Janes Reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(151 total reviews)

Blake Bartlett

71% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Janes has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 151 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Janes employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aerospace and defence industry (3.6 stars).

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151 reviews
1.0
23 Nov 2021

Engage Fearlessly! (what a joke)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

On the outside Janes looks like a promising place to work, renowned for what it does best, stellar history and you look at what is a promising opportunity within the Intelligence and OSINT space.

Cons

Unfortunately, once you join and get to know how the business is run you quickly realise that the Leadership team is totally sub par, led by an autocratic bullying CEO devoid of strategic insight and his bunch of sycophantic cronies. A company with so much potential, held back by poor management, desperately poor decision making, lack of proper investment and with no desire to change an incompetent leadership team that has proved they are unable to deliver on the need to change the business that desperately needs refreshing.

1.0
18 Nov 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Some good people, some good products, legacy brand name, neat history..

Cons

Whew where to start... the Leadership Team (C-Level Execs) are exponentially over employed and nothing short of an unmitigatged Disaster. Shortly after the company left prior ownership, they found a new owner that simply wants to make MONEY. The "Chief People Office" is a soulless robot that works to ensure his fellow C-level colleagues remain in place to extract the maximum compensation (golden parachutes and equity assurances) and benefits for their own person - every single other employee is surplus to these requirements. This guy ignored my requests for help, ignored the red flags I raised regarding business ethics and mental health, and then went behind my back to ensure my termination without abiding by any industry standard protocols. My own manager had No comparable experience and continues to run his business unit into the ground with absolutely no regard for customers who have been on board for Decades. His boss cannot complete a sentence without spewing "UH" and "UM" all over a presentation but somehow graduated from Harvard...? Complete Amateur Hour. The CEO is basically the Queen of England - a figurehead just waiting around for retirement to cash in. The person in charge, another recently hired C-level executive, seems to think he's Obi Wan Kenobi and literally makes things up on the fly to get through calls. His great idea is to simply charge customers more money for every data offering the company has and that's somehow the best way to service legacy customers during a global pandemic. An absolute Waste of 5+ years of my career. I recommend this organization to No job seeker and No prospective customer.

1.0
4 Apr 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Work-Life Balance is good Professional colleagues, especially overseas ones

Cons

New management has been all about sugar-coated talks but are clueless and indifferent. The environment is toxic and dissenting employees are sent or they quit. No space for disagreeing with the management. Everything from compensation, growth, and recognition has gone down considerably. Office politics has worsened after the de-merger from IHS Markit as a small group of people have absolute control. It is so obvious and done with such impunity that many capable employees have lost hope and left. Janes is just a shell of what it was all along. Most employees now wish IHS Markit held on to us.

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