Capital IQ Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Capital IQ

Pros – very flexible working hours, nice colleagues and ability to deal with many financial instruments across different asset classes

Cons – The job doesn't follow the current financial market, so it is quite hard to get any investment knowledge. The opportunities for promotion are also very limited.

Former Employee – worked at Capital IQ full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Salary is good
work culture is good
the company is employee friendly

Cons – Too much politics. senior management is not concerned about lower levels. frequent changes in policies.

Advice to Senior Management – Take feedback from lower levels seriously. REduce politics.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Capital IQ full-time for less than a year

Pros – Excellent pay package (perhaps best in the data analytics industry)
Flexible work timings making life easier
Balanced work atmosphere
helpful and considerate managers
Excellent company policies

Cons – No real developmental possibilities as learning is only limited to proprietary stuff
The experience doesn't add much to the learning curve of an employee
No real challenges in the job roles available at CIQ at different levels

Advice to Senior Management – No real advice as overall an excellent place to work and no complaints for the top management

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Capital IQ full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Business leadership has been good at articulating strategy in the last few years. Urgency is there.

Cons – There has been a fair amount of re-organizations due to leadership changes within the last 5+ years. Also, unless you are part of a key priority, you could be left behind. There has been a relatively high level of voluntary attrition to staff in the last year or so.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on ensuring there is a balanced scorecard on the key management team across all areas of the firm especially in areas where there is a greater than normal level of staff attrition.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Capital IQ full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – benefits from parent are good

Cons – limited directtion from mgmt and product focus

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Capital IQ full-time for more than a year

Pros – - At the beginning you learn a lot about financial statements
- They tried to give you some benefits, like gym membership, office parties once in a while, etc.
- Good wages and bonuses for the local economy.

Cons – - Secretive way of doing stuff, paranoid behavior in regards to use of computers.
- They expect you to be a cog in the machine. All ideas need to come from above, from some Ivy League kid in the US. Consequently, if you work like a monkey you will advance, even if your qualifications are not the best.
- Class membership seems to be important (but I suppose this is the same in every transnational corporation).
- It gets quickly boring and repetitive. A robot could do it, and in fact you start imagining apps that could do the job. Is not like they´re going to implement it anyway. Time to start surfing the Net!

Advice to Senior Management – Meritocracy. Learn from companies like Google. If somebody has an idea, at least think about it. You are going to try to implement it anyway three years later when there is no way out. Some people are not good as cog machines, and that is why they leave.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Capital IQ full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Balanced work-life
- Friendly and relaxed work environment
- Good pay for amount of hours worked

Cons – - Career path uncertain
- S&P culture has changed the start-up atmosphere
- NOT finance

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Capital IQ full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – None, over the past 1 1/2 years

Cons – Paranoid culture, cost cutting with ill reward, talented employees leaving, lack of product innovation

Advice to Senior Management – You are likely in the wrong business and are set up for failure. CEO is a glorified talk-show host.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Capital IQ full-time for more than a year

Pros – - No pressure, Chill environment
- Coworkers are nice

Cons – The company lacks vision or direction since the S&P take over. The CEO is arrogant and is not afraid to reduce salary across the board at the cost of driving every last talent away. Both of the guys who interviewed me quit within 6 month. People are leaving every week, it's truly sad. To cut cost, the company outsources a lot of development to india. The quality is greatly reduced. Then, as a bandaid fix, they hired Microsoft consultants at 500 dollars an hour, while handing out yearly raise less than the natural inflation rate!
It feels like the upper management are clueless of what they are doing.

Advice to Senior Management – Resign. You guys are so terrible it's helpless!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Capital IQ as an intern for less than a year

Pros – - high level of commitment towards work
- good interpersonal skills and very friendly yet professional work environment
- opportunities within and across the industry

Cons – - initial salary packages are little low

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company