Q&A With Thomson Reuters Employees

Our company is so large that's it's hard to say what I would do for the overall company culture. For my department culture, I would love to see more opportunities created for employees to get together for fun activities, both inside and outside of working hours.

Long Term approach to business vs. people trying to hit a number or metric that changes each year.

Say thank you to people who interviewed you.

Call and email the hiring manager, and push for an interview or handle any objections he/she might have with your experience or application.

Some of the products are best in class, and head and shoulders above the rest of the competition.

Nice cafeteria.

Working with all parts of operations

Good health plan.

The usual, though with less and less company participation in costs (such as medical) over the years. There's a 401(k) match, but the chosen fund investments are anything but impressive.

3 months off for paternity leave - the rest are common in most corporations

Shirt, jeans and sports coat.

A smile.

Depends on teams.

A few rounds of interviews, and I was contacted by a recruiter.

A look at the stock shows that TR isn't a stellar performer, and never has been. Reorganizations are as regular as lunch. Another occurred this week, with the sacking of the head of Legal. I did the same work over a multi-year period, and my job title and department location changed a dozen times, at least. There's not a good feeling that management knows what it's doing.

Direct Tax / Government

Dead.

Morale is low. The amount of work accomplished is astonishing, given how little most employees want to be there. That should be a credit to them, but it is not recognized by the company.

Background check, yes. No drug test that I'm aware of.

Background check

You would think, based upon their business decisions that they are high all the time, but alas, they drug test.

Depends on role and team.

Been too long since I went through the process.

Basic technical questions. Examples of past work you have completed.

The competition is absolutely fierce.

No

3 weeks vacation, 6 sick days, 2 volunteer days, 3-4 floating holidays (depending on year), and all major holidays. Increases to 4 weeks vacation at 5 years.

3 weeks. Add another week after 5 years.

Depends on teams. For development teams it's business casual.

T-shirt and shorts. Flip flops.

Around the clock, you get emails and calls on weekends from customers.

faster than it needs to be due to the lack of good process planning and poor communication

Fun to have the best product available.

interacting with many areas of the business unit

In sales, the amount of Admin. work never ends anymore. They've cut a lot of support jobs, but the technology isn't working well and the management team is not focused on addressing problems.

not so much by the quality of the work but the quantity

Proud to work at TR, but I feel undervalued this year.

overworked, underpaid and under promoted

It really depends, so much of the success can be circumstantial.

Self promoting, well connected

Not secure at all, which is unfortunate.

Somewhat secure because of the cost of replacement but that can change as management changes.

Awful. There is so much chaos around the reorganization that it’s hard to get anything done.

Low in some areas that are underappreciated or not geographically favored. Probably much higher in sales where treatment is more respectful and performance ins incentivized

Company culture is very corporate and hierarchical, with little openness to change or innovation.

Seem to care about equality, women's role in technology, etc.

Average