The Chemist continues to experiment.

Not entirely sure how we are still letting someone with a 4-5yr losing streak call the shots in Americas. In any normal organization, a halfway decent leader/HR would have fired her after all of the mess in the last couple of years just out of... — read more 

Should be interesting to see if any of the sky is falling predictions are true

Dear Helen, Thank you for visiting our office. I noticed you looked visibly happier. I didn’t have the heart to ask this during the town hall, yet I believe you’ll get this through your Marketing team or HRBP gossip. How do you manage your... — read more 

All of the comments are about places outside of Asia Pacific. But the real problems are in Asia because there has been no strong leaderships for long time. The last CRO one left a gift departing with selecting the head of the region who has little... — read more 

As we continue to feel the pressure from clients and constantly look for ways to manage costs in RCS, have you considered reviewing the productivity of the marketing and sales operations teams? Cost cutting always seems to hit client solutions and... — read more 

What leverage does RR have on PS that PS hasn’t fired RR yet? Remember when RR was supposed to move to London but didn’t? Remember when RR wanted to help his friend FF by bringing him back under the SBU? RR hasn’t produced any meaningful... — read more 

Huge for the Sell Side business

it’s getting close

Fu--ing seriously? Mondays?? No exemption for distance? So I can go in another day after a 1.5 hour commute to shoot the sh-t and get distracted? Fu--s sake man

I guess FDS no longer values diversity or at least doesn’t want to go on record as such. In its FACTS values online the word diversity was conspicuously removed from our Always Inclusive value. Irrespective of how you feel about this change, it is... — read more 

Stunning to see head of sales in America attending all holiday parties for each office. However hardly to see her going client meetings. Shame if we ever see a change in sales after what HS did there for couple of yrs. You get what you get when... — read more 

This past year has been a nightmare when it comes to workload. So many are gone that we're stuck doing an absurd amount of work. I barely have a life outside of it anymore. Complaining doesn't help, since the usual response is "be grateful you still... — read more 

Heard that there were only quiet ones after year end. Not firm wide large percentage

There’s almost zero opportunity for career advancement. Management is incompetent and rude. Company seems directionless. Everything exists in the service of leadership. You can be laid off anytime. Don’t make me even start on reorgs. I stopped caring... — read more 

Look at proxy published today - rubbish performance by company and ELT meanwhile they all got raises including Helen/CFO/CRO. I am not certain how she got salary increase + stock/options annnnnnd made more than last year. Employees got zero to... — read more 

Here we go again. CIO out who was vocal about change and fixing things. Guarantee new CIO will be a lifetime FSer with no vision and will keep things archaic. It is so sad what is happening here. There is so much potential but this leadership is... — read more 

Let’s look at what’s happening: ELT is dumping stocks (making millions) 50 random employees are asked to go to LasVegas as an incentive trip (flying premium economy) There is no pay-rise, non existent bonus, frozen t&e, no replacement... — read more 

Heard about the #crazyshitheardatFDS post which called out on some hilarious statements made by HR and Sales Leadership. Can’t see it now. The consolation for those that posted on the thread, what you had to say was read! Although they took the easy... — read more 

The old school FactSet guards are the issue here. They are all stuck in the 80’s and have no desire to look at any new ideas or changes - they know best. You have to either agree with them or be punished via comp bc their buddies will get the higher... — read more 

Unfortunate to see people cannot share their comments/feedback here before Helen and HR asking to remove posts. Similar to what they do in the company, reading Glint & Teams, they are trying to remove all facts about them. I started a thread on... — read more 

How does Helen taking the cfo role affect further cost saving efforts?

I am not optimistic. But that became a habit, after years of experiencing bad management and chaotic reorgs. Your thoughts?

https://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/9191736/factset-appoints-helen-shan-as-chief-financial-officer Helen Shan, a seasoned FactSet executive who currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, has been appointed... — read more 

No doubt on capability, however, well behaved in front of managers or those in power, and throws you sh-t whenever no one else is around. While this is normal in any corporate setting, it has been mentally exhausting to dealing with it on daily... — read more 

As if that’s gonna help. I start to think that reorgs are some kind of compulsion upper mgmt suffers from. Or could it be that they have no clue what they’re actually doing? If they were competent, we wouldn’t get ourselves into this state to begin... — read more 

She did it again.. wait - don’t get excited - Not selling but another bloody reorg. Not sure what’s worse, the presidential debate in the states last week or her town hall yesterday. However we got confirmation for few points: *** Not sure others... — read more 

If you still perform poorly after so many interventions, layoffs, changes in “strategy”, reorganizations, then it may be time to change management, no?

Phil/Linda/Board - you cut 8-10M bonuses from people each quarter, no resources, no backfill and people leaving in products but you allow Sales to have party in Vegas in November? How is this fair to others? Why are you allowing this to happen?... — read more 

Helen did it again - another bloody quarter with no real top-line or strategy to turn this damn business around. 2 years of underperforming, multiple layoffs, reorgs and cr-ppy weather forecast have gotten us nowhere. Reorg should be her middle... — read more 

CFO feels like Taylor Swift - CEO can’t contain his fake optimism - CRO has started to talk about how market conditions and “one off” instances have affected ASV. Get some “facts” and quit the posturing! Take a good hard look at how decision making... — read more 

Bravo CRO aka Helen Shan for another bloody reorg and her performance over the last 5yrs. My team sit on the product side and I was told by some of the sales teams that we are doing yet another reorg in less than a year. She made a mess with CTS and... — read more 

Last time there was a re-org a the last company I was with. There were layoffs

Did anyone attend the call for SVPs post the Q2 earnings announcement- it seemed like you could see daggers exchanged via looks and demeanour. The CFO and CRO rivalry has been evident for a while - but it blew my mind how cleverly one made a... — read more 

https://www.lbbonline.com/news/factset-says-no-to-boring-b2b-advertising Provides no value to clients or describes any competitive advantage. Can’t believe this was approved by CEO and marketing