senior software engineer

software engineer

account manager

data scientist

product manager

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

LexisNexis is a good company. Small, but consistent growth each year. Good place to start a career. Some people outside my team move up through the ranks every few years. My team--not so much. Everyone been stuck in the same rank for years. However, at the company level, most people have been here for over 7+ years.

Talent at the company is mostly good. Coworkers are all generally friendly. Great bunch of people to work with, aside from a few bad eggs on each team and some redundant middle-management.

Office culture is reasonable. Nice tall cubicles for privacy, but kind of loud since the development team is right next to account managers who are on the phone all the time. Invest in noise-cancelling headphones

Workloads aren't crazy, but there's enough things breaking each day that you never have to worry about running out of things to do. Can be feel very repetitive and tedious, but you never feel like your job security is at risk.

Typical day is come in at 9am. Check emails. Daily SCRUM meetings at 11am. Fix a few things in production. Write up a couple bugs for our website and console applications, then work on fixes for said bugs. Stay back until around 6pm or so. Full freedom to take lunch at your leisure. Hours mostly flexible as well. Manager is in a different state, so there's a large amount of independence. Pretty lax product planning. I make up most of my own work (and there's plenty to do).

Most enjoyable part is the challenge of fixing tough bugs and getting praise for putting in overtime (of which you don't get paid for). Learning new things, refactoring old code. All very satisfying, if you're motivated to continue learning.

Least enjoyable is just dealing with other people's problems. Working with other teams. Things breaking out of your control. And the morning meetings. There's a lot of "politics" in the software development. Spend very little time actually writing new code. Most of the time just documenting it, sending emails, and gathering metrics.

Extremely sharp learning curve at the beginning. But once you get past it, the job is very straight forward. 99.9% of the job boils down to reading emails, then doing very basic input/output data massaging in C# and MySQL. Very intimidating at first. Heavy on the lingo and acronyms. Cross-team communication can be annoying. But anybody out of highschool with basic knowledge of programming/logic could do the job and pick it up as they go.

Good place to work. I enjoyed my time there. It was too cold in the department I worked in so it was not a pleasant experience as far that. You need to be strong and lift heavy boxes (don't ignore that part of the posting). People are people, so remember to keep a positive attitude. If you have goals and want more in life, this stop will be a means to an end and will likely fund your business. The office does a lot for the team with fun days and gifts during the holidays. The company was really nice during the pandemic as they were essential workers. Plenty of incentives while working during those times. Worked from home for a while when switching departments. It was cool but still felt working in a prison at home. They should probably do more training before sending you home to work if you are new to a department. Overtime opportunities are there. My old dept worked weekends and holidays. If you have small kids please be prepared for that. Hard part of my job was paper cuts, tons of staples in shoes/clothes and not enough positivity in the workplace. The position served me well because I was off during the week and worked earlier hours on the weekend.  

I was incredibly interested in the job duties as they were right down my alley of the customer service skills I have looked forward too in all companies I have worked for, but it was a let down.

Management would rather hire people that would get along with the employees on their bi weekly outings that the team had rather than skill level to get the job duties done in a timely manner. I go to work to work and progress and create a career for myself rather than meet new friends and have fun on weekends with a team that only sees each other during work hours. I would rather have stability, career paths and the feel of what an employee should gain from work ethic rather than having fun on weekend outings. Management was horrible and incredibly unprofessional. 

I was looking forward to working for this huge corporation as well and what a let down it was....

I thoroughly enjoyed my many years at LexisNexis.  I was able to work with many different people at all different levels in multiple locations.

Throughout my tenure, I held several positions, always advancing my career. I learned that a job description is simply a guideline of specifics - not all-encompassing of what is necessary to do the job and do it well - and that was one of the things I loved about working there.

The personnel I worked with and for are some of the most productive, knowledgeable and dedicated people I know.  It felt like a very large family - all working and striving for the best.

The most challenging part was setting goals for the day knowing that only of few of them would get completed, simply because new, higher priority assignments would come in that were "hot".  Those "hot" projects were also the most enjoyable!

I really treasured being part of such a progressive, results-oriented, team-spirited organization.

I start work at 9PM going through hundreds of emails. I have to log into about 30 screens to monitor throughout my shift. If I have issues come up that I can not fix I have to escalate to the on call person for that application.  I monitor state availability for motor vehicle records access. I may have to contact the state or vendor to see what issues they are having if a state goes down. I change drives, rma processes for drives, nodes, power supplies, raid cards, memory that I have to have repaired or replaced. I take help desk calls for people that are unable to access through VPN or Remote access. I unlock accounts. This is basically some of what I do. I have good co-workers and a great boss. The only reason I am looking for something else is because of the 3rd shift and my family is wanting to relocate to Missouri.

Very numbers driven to exceed sales goals. Never enough head count in marketing (everyone doing the work of 2 people) with small marketing budgets. Difficult for work/life balance (many people do not have families). Growth difficult. Supposedly a team environment but seems many people want the "one-up".  Some cliques.  Marketing management has very high level of standard and excellence with scrutiny. Handful of people in certain verticals are a pleasure to work with. Traveling is exhausting but can be fun. Alpharetta office is stressful (with management overlooking) but has diverse internal events. Range of benefits good but amount to pay for such a large organization not accurate.

Over all not a bad place, it lacks a lot of the inter-office politics that make a lot of jobs terrible. It is a larger diversified corporation so when they do have layoffs they are generally smaller and limited.

The only things that are a real problem is that it is a huge conglomerate so your manager only two or three steps up likely has very little idea what you actually do.  That can lead to problems with performance reviews that do not reflect reality and the addition of unrealistic expectations being placed on your job because they simply don't know what you really do. 
 
Another related problem is the lack of tools to do your job effectively.  In an effort to standardize they took a system that was not made for the task and forced it to do the job resulting in a permanent 14% reduction in productivity and then refused to make many small modifications.

I was shocked and dismayed when my position was eliminated at LexisNexis, but would rejoin that organization in a heartbeat. The company culture was the least toxic, most positive I've ever experienced. The people are great - positive, talented, dedicated, and hard-working. As a manager, I helped develop the management skills of numerous direct reports and colleagues, and enjoyed watching them flourish under my leadership. Since my job had largely converted to remote working after COVID and the dispersal of my team members, I learned a lot about how to coach a distributed team and ensure they stayed engaged. I was devastated when my position was eliminated, and will miss the people most of all, but I understand the financial constraints that led to the decision. 

Even though I took a paycut (due to accepting a lower salary, receiving a lower annual bonus, and forced to have a high deductible medical plan), initially my career outlook was positive. Then I realized most of my work involved skills/tools/technology that was not in demand in the outside world. This has a negative impact on my marketability. There are more exciting projects where I can gain better skills there but I won't get those assignments here. 

If you're new, find allies quickly because some people are not collaborative. They hoard info and prefer to work with their longtime work friends or people in their same ethnic group or having the same native language. In my day-to-day work, I am frustrated often and it's just not healthy.

Overall it’s a friendly place to work and people are typically responsive and willing to help though cross team communication takes a bit of getting used to. There is a lot of legacy tech debt but in the past few years I’ve seen a big improvement in the direction from leadership and actively updating old codebases, migrating apps to cloud as well as embracing more developer friendly tools. 

Unfortunately the pay I was offered starting out as a entry-level software engineer was fairly low and the raises since then have been not frequent/large enough that I have ended being paid well below industry standards. If you choose to work here have a plan to ask for the wage you want and ask about expectations for raises/bonuses.

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