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XpertHR (USA) is a startup and employees generally have somewhat overwhelming workloads. The pay is not as competitive as similar companies. The structure is also currently flat, leaving little room for career growth. However, once the company begins to grow in profitability, it will be a very good place to work.

There is plenty of room for career development as every member of the team (Sales and Editorial) has opportunities to work outside of their job description on different projects within different departments.

Management will work to accommodate each employee's schedule, as well as help lift workloads when employees are too overwhelmed. Management is receptive to those who vocalize issues with their workloads, but often takes a long time to get back to employees. Management has poor communication.

The office culture is generally laid back and business casual. The Sales department is less laid back than the Editorial department.

As the company progresses, so will the office morale. It is a good job for entry-level employees because the have the chance to grow their resumes, but senior personnel will only be happy if their main priority is working from home and having flexible schedules.

You need to remember that this is a UK centric company.  As such US resources are considered highly expendable.  Accuity is also a fan of hiring less experienced young folks, whom they can groom.  This is a great cost effective practice, but can be extremely stressful to highly experienced folks who are viewed as threats, especially by managers who may not have the depth and breadth of experience that more seasoned professionals bring to the table.  That said, for my first two years, I worked for a very professional, fair, trusting, and successful manager who recognized where my value best fit the company and worked at placing me there.  Once I was in the best position for me to make significant contributions, the manager I worked for was extremely threatened by my seniority and background, and made life a misery, refusing to provide training, or to place me on engagements.  The first manager was US based, the second was UK based.  Enough said.

Benefits are ok, but you should expect to lay out a sizable chunk of change, if you are covering a family's medical needs.

At the end of the day, my experience was mostly positive. There was a near constant revolving door of new senior managers and directors - all of which were obviously well rehearsed at ladder climbing and none were hired inside the company. The C-Level team was near constant however and provided some stability to the vision, though one wonders how any vision could be executed with the plan changed with a near annual change in director level folks. The mid-level management and lower management team seemed to be able to get things done but there was a fair amount of squabbling and bureaucracy going on. The environment was very professional and we had very good access to tools to get the job done. If you knew how to work upper management, then you could be really effective as a manager but that typically involved long hours not only keep your team effective, but stay prepared and out in front of politics.

This company is a strong player in the Global Regulatory Compliance industry.  Depending on the department, a typical day may range from a series of specific tasks to a complete self directed, and determined, set of tasks.  While at this company, I have been given the opportunity to learn the Compliance and Regulatory business, and was given the opportunity to leverage my extensive background in consulting to deliver services to company clients.   Co-workers at this company run the gamut.  I worked with incredibly helpful and considerate folks who made me feel that I was blessed, and then had the unfortunate experience of working with some folks with questionable abilities.  I don't thing that this is much different than most other companies.  The hardest part of my job was trying to figure out what management expected of me.

I worked for a sub-company of Relx, Cirium.
At Cirium, a typical day at work started with looking over the board to see what tickets were available. Our team, due to the nature of our work, used Kanban-style for tracking work.  The work was non-stop (tickets for new sources, tickets to fix discrepancies in current sources, etc), and yet the stress level was very low.
At some point in the morning, we would have our standup meeting (with manager involved).  It was a very low key standup, with lots of humor to go around.  

I think the team dynamic was the best part of the experience.  Our team was like an extended family, and we enjoyed joking around with one another.  It never interfered with work, and management understood that.  

There is zero culture and zero to get excited about. This is truly a job. Management has extremely high expectations, setting one up for failure from the onset. If you have zero desire in life, besides sitting at cubicle and managing a product that no one understands and that can be found for free elsewhere, this is the place for you. 
If you want to feel good about your contribution to something - this is not the place for you. You will be contributing to zero - except making the executive suite richer.
Don't be fooled by LinkedIn videos that feature executives talking about why it's so great to work at Accuity - it's not. Any company that has to make a video explaining why things are so great - isn't so great.

A typical day included ordering and receiving healthcare licensee data. Once the data was received, we would load it into our proprietary system and then perform quality assurance checks and review reports to make sure that the data meets company quality assurance standards. The most difficult part of the job was that one could easily overlook something that could cause problems later on. However that also helped motivate me to improve my quality assurance and attention to detail skills. Management and workplace culture were good and casual. They also allowed for a flexible schedule.

The company developed some useful products, created good Engineering and Data science job opportunities, and attracted some good talent.

The company is split between San Jose and Sydney, Australia. This split created some inconveniences and friction between the major locations.

Management has often been difficult to deal with. Two much bean-counting for the short-term at the expense of the long-term.



RELX is a composition of Reed Elsevier, LexisNexis, RBI, ChoicePoint and other companies. The company is most efficient when it operates as a single company. However, payment systems are still fragmented with different rules, personnel, etc. I can see that it might be difficult sometimes to get prompt responses on past due payments. Each entity also has their own Legal teams and getting things approved can take a long time. In general, management is very good, just fragmented (territorial) by division.

Crazy amount of reorgs, layoffs and off shoring. No concern about moral. Decided on what seemed like a whim to move my entire group to another state, No real reason or strategy behind it, just like a thousand other reorganizations they made in the past. Management was floundering and it was obvious. I worked with a bunch of very professional and knowledgable people. Really some of the most experienced and professional co workers I ever had. It was such a shame that the management didn't respect them.

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