As With Any Decision, Be Informed - Anonymous employee Hanover Research Employee Review

2.0
Oct 25, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As mentioned in a lot of other posts, your coworkers are often the biggest plus of working at Hanover. For entry-level folks, you can gain some basic work experience and at least some degree of insight about the types of questions that businesses are interested in trying to answer from market research perspective. For those interested in one day being a company decision maker (at Hanover or elsewhere), you can learn a lot about what *not* to do as an influencer, which can be extremely valuable since real-world problem solving often eludes simple, direct answers and can be heavily determined by communication ability (e.g. by actually having conversations with people).

Cons

Unfortunately, the camaraderie that develops between you and your coworkers often comes from complaining about the work and the company itself. For the work, I would describe it as generally unfulfilling. You can expect in any job that there will be tasks that you enjoy doing and tasks that you do not enjoy doing, but in my experience the work at Hanover is tilted towards the latter category and especially so for entry-level employees. For the company, there is a surprising lack in transparency and excess of bureaucracy for a company of Hanover's size. The former makes it very difficult for most employees to have meaningful conversations about their future at Hanover (as well as the future of the company itself) and the latter makes it very difficult to affect any type of positive change. These two issues are confounding by the fact that quite a few upper echelon people at Hanover have little to no experience outside of Hanover and often little aptitude for managing employees.

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Hanover Research Response
10y
Thank you for your feedback. I am surprised to read that you did not find the work fulfilling at all. Most employees, even if they have moved on from Hanover, comment on the variety of topics and breadth of research exposure and training they receive during their time at Hanover. Hanover management has made numerous avenues available for engaging directly with our C-suite (in person and virtually) so I am unsure how much more transparent we can be with employees. Our CEO's recent communication to employees discussed our plans for smart growth moving forward instead of just year-over-year growth of revenue so we are hearing what our employees are saying and making those changes.

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Pros

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Cons

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Hanover Research Response
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Thank you for your review. We are happy to hear you enjoyed working at Hanover! Please feel free to reach out to peoplesupport@hanoverresearch.com with any more information or if you have questions about our annual performance review process and career pathways. -The People Team
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Cons

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