RELX reviews

4.1

88% would recommend to a friend

(789 total reviews)

Erik Engstrom

88% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

RELX has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 789 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The RELX employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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789 reviews
1.0
Sep 22, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Can't think of any anymore

Cons

Lots of cons.. In IT we have a reorg at least twice per year. They are always laying people off. Benefits used to be good now I can't even afford my own prescriptions. I spend $500 a month on health insurance and can't afford anything for myself. I have to choose whether I'll pay for mine, my wife's or my daughter. Can't afford all 3. Haven't had a decent raise since 2000. They are constantly outsourcing to India, Singapore or Philippines. Many people don't even get raises. When you do get one, it's 1.5% or 2%. They brought in a VP for 3 years who had the task of firing as many people as possible.. He fired so many people that there weren't enough engineers around to do the work. Engineers called them the Mafia because they all had Italian names and were all from New York. NO direction from executive management. They don't have a clue.. Engineers support thousands of servers and get zero in the way of gratitude.

3.0
Sep 16, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

In the Netherlands full travel expenses covers, flexible working conditions 36 hours a week. Can be a nice laid back environment at times.

Cons

Working in finance department strangely there was no budget for training, you want to grow in the department, but you need to be working there over 5/10 years for this to be possible. Young management team who are not suited for the job. Very hands off management as well. They will bug you for one week every month to see why this and that hasn't been done, then tune off for the rest of the month. Office culture very cliquey. If you are in with the higher management you will go far and be better liked.

3.0
Sep 8, 2014

I see some improvement...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Since Accuity is now part of Reed Business Information, the perks really come from the access to the resources, process improvements and opportunities of the parent conglomerate. RBI does try to bring everyone into the fold eventually which has its benefits. The IT vertical has seen the most improvement in the recent years. Compensation is average within the market.

Cons

The expertise in certain areas is still lacking. Health and other Benefits are well below the other companies in similar fields. Career progression is definitely limited and initiative is not very well rewarded but this is improving. Low funds for team activities. The CEO is not as visible as prior to the RBI acquisition and more vision reinforcement can be done.

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