Solid company but set in its ways - Anonymous employee Equifax Employee Review

4.0
Jun 2, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Equifax has a solid reputation with its clients and is the leading repository of decision information. It has made great strides in improving the employee experience by offering work flexibility options such as work-from-home and flexible hours. It has a good matching for the 401K program and does offer health insurance although it it expensive in my opinion. Work locations include gyms and reasonable cafeterias.

Cons

The annual employee review system is not one of the best. There is a quota system whereby only a small percentage is allowed to be rated as "Excels" and regardless of how hard you work you will probably be in the "achieves" category. This is especially true if you are a junior person in a smaller department where the senior team members are entrenched and management doesn't want to lose them. The dress code, although not as stringent as other companies could be loosened for those who spend their entire work life in a cubicle out of the eye of any outside entities. Many times managers are provided gushing kudos and rewards for work that the rank and file accomplished, in spite of the manager's lack of knowledge about what the employees really do. I have seen a lot of turnover of great folks because of the perception that they aren't appreciated yet have unreasonable pressure from managers so the managers can shine.

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Cons

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Pros

My direct manager. Comp plan if you’re lucky enough to find several whale clients, and if you’re lucky, the commission is approved.

Cons

There are a lot. First, office politics. Equifax expects employees to be very corporate and robotic. Metrics metrics metrics. 100% focused on revenue, not customers. Metrics, metrics, metrics. PIP overuse. Even when you’re 150% to yearly plan 6mo in, they expect 300%. Make sure to keep receipts. Senior management will find the most ridiculous ways to push reps out, continently right before a huge payout of a very delayed commission plan. (Sell something in Jan 2025, you will only get a fraction of commission until June 26). That’s if the exception committee approves payout (which never happens). If you sell a big deal, don’t expect to get paid 100% of what the plan says.

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