Argus Media reviews

There's a serious lack of transparency and clarity over promotions and pay rises. There's isn't a clear enough sense of expectations and goals and promotions are based on who you know / who is your manager. There's some serious holes in senior management and they don't engage enough with their employees. At the very top there's an old boys club that seems very difficult for anyone who isn't old, male and white to break into. It's demotivating to have no real sense of what you can achieve and how and to feel that no matter how well you do there is a limit on your progress just 'because' and so people leave to go elsewhere - loads of talented people have left in the last year for this reason.

No bonus or incentive to do extra work. No pension plan. The work of doing a newsletter with good weekly content turned into a repetitive grind. You have to build relationships with external people that frequently do not want to talk to you. In some products, Argus network needs to be built up. The workload was high because in addition to collecting, analyzing and writing news, we were tasked with various annual analysis books and special studies. It is difficult to take real vacation because there is no backup. When people quit, it can take a long time to fill that position, so some people were doing 1.5 jobs. Lots of price reporting agency competitors and potential contacts and customers may get bombarded with other price reporting agencies calling them. So not all contacts want to talk.