J.D. Power and Associates Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Strong company with room to grow!"

"I've worked for J.D. Power for almost 15 years. I stayed with the company for such a long time because the people were great and we always worked as a team to create wonderful accurate web and print pieces that met the J.D. Power standards. These marketing pieces were done efficiently while meeting deadlines regardless of how tight sometimes they were. It is a global organization that has different offices all over the world. The one in Westlake Village, California holds the graphics department."

"Great company to work for."

What do you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"Meeting with clients and collaborating with them to improve their ROI"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make it sure to get the clarification about what their expectations are"

What don't you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"Too much bureaucratic and not easy to adopt to changing world"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The mobile world is transforming the way we do our daily business and we not to adopt to the velocity of change"

"The only concern of management is money. If you are not making a gross amount of profit in your department then be prepared for dumb decision firing and layoffs by the executives. They have a buy not build mentality, even if they had the staff and skills to do the building."

"Although JDPower is a company that awards excellence awards, the working culture of the company is extremely awful, including no work life balance, little honesty and trust, mid management is pretty bad."

"Poorly run company."

What do you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"Most of the people I interacted with on a daily basis were very nice people and generally pleasant to be around."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Don't. You'll get more money and respect working for ANY of their competitors. Only work for J.D. Power and Associates if you like repeatedly bashing your head into a wall."

What don't you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"The hiring model in the research departments seems to be based around hiring the most attractive female college interns and hope that the clients don't actually read the data. Then when they do complain, they just blame the development teams. Research teams can't seem to manage their clients thus causing ridiculous, unwarranted and/or impossible change requests to be processed."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The sad thing is, they know what needs to be done. They just don't have the balls to do it."

What do you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"representing the voice of the customer (VOC)"

What don't you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"no strong leadership outside of automotive"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Understand the circumstances and business environment before executing lay-offs"

"interesting idea"

What do you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"It was a wonderful job, but the current economy is destroying it."

What don't you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"getting laid off"

What do you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"Very professional and comfortable to work for."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Interpersonal skills are important, so is honesty. This company is on your side to help you grow in all aspects."

What don't you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"Unfortunately, company called it quits and we all had to look for another job."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management has both open door policy and relaxed atmosphere, however, a few times some activities were a bit extreme."

"Interesting area of working with a lot of rocket-science in their internal product I worked for."

"The unique and positive culture at JDPA is dead"

What do you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"Colleagues were great. Local management varied from great to very much not so great.A good tone of quality and responsibility to do things well so as to protect the credibility of the brand name."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"While still a place where young researchers can learn and practice modern research, and still a place that is upbeat and positive (being a pure capitalist doesn't make you a bad guy--necessarily), don't believe the hype about how highly they value each employee. On that aspect of culture/environment, JDPA is no better, nor worse than so many others."

What don't you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"The continuing shift to prioritizing product development and research projects solely on their profit potential reduced the emphasis on creativity and looking for new and useful research topics.Conformity became too highly valued. The vociferous cheerleading from management became ever more disingenuous. Employees' intellectual capital (expertise in specific industries) began to be secondary, even tertiary to profit."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. The company has become too big and purely corporate. Whatever unique JDPA culture there was has been effectively submerged. Only Dave Power could have fixed this and he has retired. It is no longer a place for social scientists, only marketing researchers looking to learn and practice mechanical, fill-in-the-blank research."

"decent"

What do you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"Was fine"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"wear an nice shirt"

What don't you like about working at J.D. Power and Associates?

"OK pay not so good"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"no problem"