Wood Mackenzie reviews

Even just a few months ago, this would have been a VERY positive review. But after the Veritas buyout, the company has become increasingly a worse and worse place to work at each month. The company no longer cares about creating high quality long-term products and only seems to care about how to get something done as cheaply as possible as fast as possible. There is very little to no room for career growth as an engineer here anymore in most teams due to this as well. Even people overqualified for a promotion are made to jump through every hoop imaginable to get it. Even with high profits, they are also still willing to lay off employees so that they can hire cheaper outsourced labor, so job security is very weak as well - unless you're underpaid.

Sadly, the culture I listed in the pros section does not extend to HR and other sector leadership. This is truly a UK centric company and reaching above the level of VP is essentially a popularity contest - and to get voted in, it helps if you are a white UK male and you don't rock the boat by (heaven forbid) asking questions or discussing myopic decisions made by upper management. Those who are the face of the company and lead client engagement and/or teams of analysts are not considered authoritative enough to have a voice in key decisions. Instead, the UK management club makes decisions in a vacuum and then expects those below who actually lead the work to ask "how high" when they say "jump." Your workforce is people who excel at analysis - and that workforce bringing up valid issues when far-reaching decisions are made are not disgruntled, they are logical professionals who can see the ramifications of decisions made in a vacuum. Further, Woodmac has shifted from independent, unbiased advisory to advocacy for the energy transition. Regardless of how your political opinions may fall, this is a drastic change from the foundation upon which Woodmac was built and is not what most of the client base wants - they pay above market for Woodmac's independent, informed and thorough analysis - not to be lobbied to like a member of Congress. People are leaving the company in droves and upper mamagement has their heads in the sand.