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Questel is a true end-to-end intellectual property solutions provider to more than 20,000 clients and 1,5M users across 30 countries. We offer a comprehensive software suite for searching, analyzing and managing inventions and IP assets. To better understand who we are and our missions, here is a short video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJGBbcEF4H8 read more
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Questel Company Culture

Questel Culture

This score is derived from employee ratings & reviews
4.3/5
Questel's Overall Culture is rated A-

Top Rated Culture Dimensions

Questel CEO

Top 5%Top 5% of Similar Size Companies
Charles Besson Questel's CEO
Charles Besson
88 /100

Diversity at Questel

Top 40%Top 40% of Similar Size Companies
B-

Diverse employees at Questel have rated Compensation, Retention, and Happiness as the highest categories they have scored

Women at Questel

Questel eNPS

Net Promoter Score tracks your employees' overall score to this question: "On a scale from 0-10, how likely are you to recommend working at your company to a friend?"
Top 50%Top 50% of Similar Size Companies

Recommend to a Friend?

-1

Questel employees are -1% more likely to recommend Questel as a great place to work

43%Promoters
13%Passives
44%Detractors

Working at Questel

Working at Questel is rated highly by 25 employees, across various culture dimensions. Questel employees are most satisfied about CEO Rating, Outlook, and Team categories, putting Questel’s culture in the Top 15% compared to similar sized companies on Comparably. See below in detail how working at Questel was rated by employees.

Overall Company Culture at Questel

A-

Overall Company Culture at Questel is rated A-

Last updated months ago

Top
15%

Questel ranks in the Top 15% of other companies on Comparably with 1,001-5,000 Employees for Overall Company Culture Score

Questel Employee Reviews

Out of 4 Questel employee reviews, 100% were positive.

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0%
Positive Reviews100%
Constructive Feedback0%

Positive Reviews From Questel Employees

  • What are some of the best things about your team?
    Quick, responsible and a good team spirit
  • What is the best part about your compensation package?
    Putting money aside for the future

Questel Company Information

Questel Company Overview

Questel is a true end-to-end intellectual property solutions provider to more than 20,000 clients and 1,5M users across 30 countries. We offer a comprehensive software suite for searching, analyzing and managing inventions and IP assets. To better understand who we are and our missions, here is a short video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJGBbcEF4H8

Questel was founded in 1978 and its current CEO is Charles Besson. Since its inception 48 years ago, Questel has grown to 1400 employees.

Questel Mission, Vision & Values

Questel Mission Statement

A well-controlled innovation contributes to improving living conditions and quality of life. Intellectual property plays a key role to ensuring that innovation is developed in a fair way, without counterfeiting and without abuse of a dominant position. Questel’s mission is to allow Innovation to be developed in an efficient, secured and sustainable way. Questel works for the efforts of creators, innovators or researchers to be rewarded. We imagine and design tomorrow’s software and services to help them enforce their rights and value their intellectual assets. We make Intellectual Property technically and financially more accessible.

Questel Vision Statement

Behind our mission, Questel considers that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a broad-based movement in business that encourages companies to take responsibility for the impact of their activities on customers, employees, communities and the environment. Companies committed to corporate responsibility also agree to abide by international labor and human rights standards.

Questel Values

  • Courtesy : as the 1st step toward respect
  • Honesty : with coworkers, partners and customers of course, but first with ourselves
  • Courage : to try, to fail, and to try again

Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility at Questel

We strive to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders. And we understand that our duties as an Intellectual Property and Innovation solutions provider come with vast responsibilities: toward the economy and society, as an employer, and for our environment.

In order to meet the environmental, societal and ethical challenges that have become prevalent in our society, Questel is committed to applying a Social and Environmental Responsibility approach as a key to shared growth that is profitable for the company, its employees, partners and, more broadly, for civil society and the environment in which we operate.

We encourage sustainable and eco-friendly behaviours :
- Environment and people's health are a priority
- We are implementing a recycling policy
- We are developing a green IT policy
- We are committed to reducing our energy and technology footprint

The Company’s management is responsible for ensuring its organisation operates and behaves to secure compliance within the areas of human rights, labour rights, environment and corruption.

The Company aspires to conduct its business in accordance with the following UN Global Compact principles:
- Support the rights of all individuals independent of gender, race and religion
- Uphold the freedom of association and the right to bargain collectively
- Provide working conditions that surpass basic health and safety standards
- Operate good governance practices, in particular in relation to bribery and corruption and conflict of interests
- Support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges, and undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility

HeadquarterBoulevard de la Madeleine
Paris 75001
France
Websitewww.questel.com
Founding Date1978
Tel+33 (0)1 55 04 52 00
Company StatusPrivate
Jobswww.questel.com/life-at-questel/careers/
Social Sites

Questel Competitors

Questel competitors include Clarivate and CPA Global. Questel ranks 1st in Overall Culture Score on Comparably vs its competitors. See below how Questel compares to its competitors with CEO Rankings, Product & Services, NPS, Pricing, Customer Services, Overall Culture Score, eNPS, Gender and Diversity Scores.

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    Questel
    4.3/5
  2. #2
    Clarivate's Logo
    Clarivate
    4.2/5
  3. #3
    CPA Global's Logo
    CPA Global
    2.2/5
  • Our team enjoying sunset while hiking
  • Our team representing Questel during a marathon
  • Our Asia Sales meeting
  • Questel team during a ski trip
  • Questel team during a snow hiking trip
  • Questel team discovering canyoning
  • Questel employees enjoying a little break
  • The team enjoying a bike ride by the sea
  • Questel team enjoying playing tennis
  • Questel team running a marathon

Questel Employees

Questel has 1400 employees. 25 employees at Questel have reviewed Questel across various culture dimensions, providing their opinions on items ranging from executive ratings to the pace at work. The latest review was months ago.

Overall, the 25 Questel employees give their leadership a grade of A, or Top 10% of similar size companies. This includes specific ratings of their executive team, CEO, and manager.

Employees at Questel are not very pleased with their total compensation at Questel, which includes a combination of pay, stock and equity, and benefits.

Overall, employees at Questel are extremely happy with their team. 25 Participants grade the quality of their coworkers an A+. The majority believe the meetings at Questel are effective, and the majority look forward to interacting with their coworkers.

The majority of employees at Questel believe the environment at Questel is positive. Most Participants believe the pace of work at Questel is comfortably fast. About 67% of the employees at Questel work 8 hours or less.

Overall, the employees at Questel are happy, based on their aggregated ratings of future outlook, customer perception, and their excitement going to work.

Joining Questel - Employee Onboarding

The prevailing opinion from Comparably users about their company is that it was very prepared on their first day. Employees concluded that their overall onboarding experience was positive. 73% said their direct manager was helpful with their acclimation during the first 90 days. First impressions are important, and how prepared a company is on your first day leaves a lasting impression.

Questel KPIs and OKRs

Employees’ understanding of Questel's KPIs and OKRs is essential for its success. Out of 2 Questel employees who’ve answered, “Are your company’s goals clear and are you invested in them?” 1 have said yes.

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Are your company's goals clear, and are you invested in them?
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Are the KPIs/OKRs for your department clear?

Questel Salaries

How much does Questel pay?

How much do people at Questel get paid? See the latest salaries by department and job title. The average estimated annual salary, including base and bonus, at Questel is $111,711, or $53 per hour, while the estimated median salary is $116,140, or $55 per hour.

At Questel, the highest paid job is a Corporate Counsel at $178,695 annually and the lowest is a CS Rep at $46,302 annually. Average Questel salaries by department include: Product at $131,385, Finance at $86,411, Admin at $55,544, and Communications at $82,981. Half of Questel salaries are above $116,140.

10 employees at Questel rank their Compensation in the Bottom 40% of similar sized companies (based on 29 ratings) while 9 employees at Questel rank their Perks And Benefits in the Bottom 40% of similar sized companies (based on 10 ratings).

Last updated months ago.

1st Percentile
$68k
$68k1st Percentile
17th Percentile
$89k
$89k17th Percentile
33rd Percentile
$115k
$115k33rd Percentile
50th Percentile
$163k
$163k50th Percentile
67th Percentile
$227k
$227k67th Percentile
83rd Percentile
$244k
$244k83rd Percentile
100th Percentile
$287k
$287k100th Percentile
$111,711*
Average Compensation
$116,140*
Median Compensation

* Estimated salaries Estimated salaries are based on data provided anonymously by employees and/or estimated by other statistical methods.

Questel Salaries by Department

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Diversity & Inclusion at Questel

Diverse employees at Questel score the company 70/100 across various culture categories, placing Questel in the Top 40% of companies on Comparably with 1,001-5,000 Employees for Comparably's diversity score. The Diversity score provides insights into how diverse employees feel and rate their work experience at Questel across various culture dimensions.

Corporate Social Responsibility : to meet the environmental, societal and ethical challenges, we are committed to a Corporate Social Responsibility approach.,,Anti-corruption guidelines  : our anti-corruption policy aim to assist staff understand and apply our anti-corruption policy and integrity guidelines. ,,Sustainable Purchasing Charter : to promote a responsible supply chain and sustainable performance to support our business, the purchasing division is working to promote a responsible supply chain and sustainable performance to support our business, the purchasing division is working to promote the 3 pillar :  leverage innovation partnerships with suppliers, increase competitiveness and contribute to local development. ,,Ethical Marketing Charter : because we believe that practicing ethics in marketing means deliberately applying standards of fairness, of moral rights and wrongs and practice in the organization. In Questel, we have chosen our principles to operate by : honesty, responsibility, fairness, respect, transparency and citizenship.,,Supplier Diversity Policy : Questel Translations (MultiLing) works with more than 1,300 translators around the world and applies ethical, diversity and non-discrimination standards. 

Ranked Culture the Highest

Women N/A/100
Men N/A/100
Diverse Employees N/A/100

Ranked Culture the Lowest

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Questel Perks & Benefits

Health & Wellness

  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

  • PTO / Vacation Policy
  • Paid Holidays
  • Maternity / Paternity Leave

Financial Benefits

  • Performance Bonus
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Office Perks

  • Company Social Outings
  • Work From Home Policy

Questel PTO

Questel's PTO and Vacation policy typically gives 20-30 days off a year. Questel's benefits and PTO Package averages to represent a $2500+ cash value per month.

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Vacation Policy0%
Office Meals0%
401k Contribution0%
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Other than healthcare, which of the following benefits is most important to you?
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Does your boss expect you to work when you're on vacation?
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$2500+/mo50%
$1500 - $2500/mo50%
$1000 -$1500/mo0%
$500 -$1000/mo0%
Less than $500/mo0%
What do you estimate the cash value of your benefits to be? Healthcare, PTO, etc?

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Frequently Asked Questions regarding Questel

What is Questel address?

Questel location is at Boulevard de la Madeleine

Who is the CEO of Questel?

Questel CEO is Charles Besson, their score by employees is 88

What is Questel eNPS?

The eNPS for Questel is -1

What is the salary for Office Manager in Questel?

Office Manager average salary in the US is 65k

What are the salaries in the Sales in Questel?

The average salaries for Sales in Questel is 129k

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