Thomson Reuters Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Nice Data Center."

What do you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"Exposure to technology."

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

"Be yourself."

What don't you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"After hours and weekend work."

"Best and brightest people."

What do you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"Huge corporate structure and attendant issues."

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

"Rigorous process: phone and multiple reviewer interviews. Be prepared!"

What don't you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"Working with the best and brightest people."

"With merger with Reuters too large to get your arms around."

"Very large corporation, with the advantages and issues of a large entity."

What do you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"Very good benefits and pay."

What don't you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"Too much bureaucracy. Decision making is slow. The company organization is too segmented."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Concentrate on production and developing the product. Organizing teams better. Improving project management. Align goals with reality, not reality with goals."

"It's a very good learning experience for complicated OO work."

"Great job."

What do you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"It was a great working environment."

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

"Be ready for long hours of work."

What don't you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"The commute to Boston."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work."

"Why I came and why I'm glad I'm gone."

What do you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"Thomson Reuters is, on the whole, I believe, a good company and mostly a good place to work. My business unit, however, was terrible -- and that is the opinion of most of my former colleagues. However, many of the company's products are good, and the corporation tries to cultivate a good work environment."

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

"The people are genuinely friendly at the low-level manager and analyst level, if not sometimes naive. Don't be suckered in, however, by their cordiality -- if it's a sales person, she will stab you in the back at the first chance; if it's a consultant, he might be more naive than he seems. And don't be wowed by the elegance of the space; they got a good deal on a used space after 9/11 when nobody wanted to be in lower Manhattan. Avoid anyone there who is under 45 and who has been there more than four years or anyone who has returned after an absence -- if they have asked you in for an interview, you probably already know more than they do. But if you need a job badly and they make you an offer, do consider it; you might be taught something there, as there are a few good people from whom you can learn a lot. I did."

What don't you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"My business unit was not typical, I believe, of the organization as a whole, which is why I left and why I'm glad to be gone. Before I was hired, that unit had been a start-up company which was purchased by and merged into TT&A, but Thomson did not get rid of most of the executives at the time of of the merger. Consequently, that upper management -- who admitted knowing nothing about the tax area in which we claimed a specialty -- were busy guarding their fiefdoms, protecting their jobs, and hiding their ignorance. To make matters worse, the CEO, who actually was a Thomson transplant, understood that Thomson had paid too much for the company -- the company was actually a service provider, even though it masqueraded as a software company, and Thomson paid a multiple of ten times earnings (like a software company) instead of a multiple of two times earnings (like a service company) -- but instead of admitting as much and trying to move forward, he was busy protecting the people who had made the error, who had failed properly to do their due diligence; and consequently, instead of cleaning up the mess, he was busy perpetuating the charade. And because, he, too, knew nothing about the tax issue that was the supposed specialty, and instead relied on the advice of the executives in place from the acquired company, he had no idea that he was being buffaloed by those execs. And they were terrible managers -- grumpy to work for, stifling innovation, clueless about what tax practice is really like or what software tools are really helpful to tax practitioners,and, to boot, cooking the books to make themselves look good in the eyes of the unit's CEO and TT&A division management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"1. Get rid of the executive directors -- either by termination, or by promoting them to a place where they can do no harm. 2. Decide whether the business unit is a service provider (in which case get over the fact that TT&A paid too much for it and go ahead and develop the services wing by investing in people and cultivating an honestly professional atmosphere -- one focused on the client's actual tax needs, rather than on its next purchase, or create a real-life software firm that does not depend on its service segment to attract clients."

What do you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"Benefits and salary."

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

"Good place to work."

What don't you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"Working holidays and the job I had was going to end (data center moving)."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Offer long term employees another job, if their job is ending."

"Not too exciting."

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

"Do it with no expectations and for the time it takes you to find something better."

What don't you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"Too political for a work place."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Check who you hire for managers."

"Offered opportunity to electronics field calling on Home Depot."

"Well worth your while if you can survive tax season."

What do you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"The staff and the management are really good. It really feels like a family."

What don't you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"I thought it was great place."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They really do a good job to make sure you are happy."

"Senior test engineer, responsible for writing test cases, test plan, requirement assessment, develop test case, test script, execute them and at the end log the defect."

"Good place. Division rolled into another in NJ and Boston was laid off."

"Be warned! Thomson Reuters is a place to avoid."

What do you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"They paid far more than the market rate for contractors. There is good reason why the have to but if all you want is the money and don't care much how you get it, this place will do."

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

"Be prepared to be substantially lied to right from the start, do not take their word for anything, and if you go to work there treat each day as though it is your last... you may well be right."

What don't you like about working at Thomson Reuters?

"The management is incompetent, they treat contractors like migratory farm workers or worse, they are pathologically incapable of keeping their commitments and completely arbitrary in the judgements, evaluations and assignments."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The management there has missed every development in management science in the last thirty years. I doubt any suggestions I make could penetrate the cast iron craniums in this company."