D&B Reviews

Former Employee – worked at D&B full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Interesting business domain;
- Pool of talented people in the Dublin office, both highly-skilled and enthusiastic about technology;
- Nice working environment

Cons – - Highly bureaucratic organization;
- The organization prides itself as a technology “follower,” as opposed to being an early adopter – sometimes following far too late;
- Deadlines arbitrarily set by senior management to satisfy political agendas, causing stress, unpaid overtime and poor end-product quality – short-sighted decisions to reach short-term goals;
- Too many decision-makers, with conflicting opinions, causing the doers to constantly change directions;
- Waterfall approach with planning and design upfront, preventing reactivity, often resulting in building products that do not necessarily meet customers’ needs;
- The company employs too many contractors and vendors, responsible to some extent for the general inertia;
- Endless and outdated test cycles preventing any quick delivery to market.

Advice to Senior Management – - Stop the business talk, and get back to simplicity: D&B is not that big, and it doesn’t need a complex and onerous infrastructure;
- Put an end to big, design/planning upfront projects, with pointless meetings, reviews, checkpoints, etc. and lengthy test cycles at the end: adopt a lean, agile approach allowing fast releases, to quickly respond to customer needs and market changes.

Former Employee – worked at D&B as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Excellent office atmosphere
Good growth potential

Cons – There were no cons in my opinion.

Former Employee – worked at D&B full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Employees worldwide are a great team who are dedicates to delivering high quality solutions.

Cons – Financials run every aspect of the company. You can never be sure that a project you are working on will continue because management has demonstrated too many times they will stop projects just to meet a monthly target number.

Advice to Senior Management – Decreasing headcount as a result of a bad financial figures is very short sighted. Financial Flexibility only creates stress on your employees. Instead focus on growing revenue.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at D&B full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – There are some smart people

Cons – It's a big slow-moving company

Advice to Senior Management – Get some good tech people at higher level

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at D&B

Pros – Onsite opportunities are available for BAs

Cons – Increment is a concern. Slow growth up in career

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at D&B

Pros – A candidates' experience will totally depend on the team, he/she is part of! Therefore, before joining, it is advisable to have a candid discussion on your roles and responsibilities!

Cons – Limited focus on training, development and long term career progression of the employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at D&B full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Has a solid brand name in some regions

Cons – Not investing long term in people due to re-engineering
Too slow to keep up with competitors in all markets
Too much hubris within leadership

Advice to Senior Management – Investors need to think long term as they are losing tacit knowledge among key talent
Not enough staff year on year to cope with increased workload
Assess pricing strategy

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at D&B full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Can work close to home or remote. Top of the industry. Certain managers are great. Good entree into the b2b world if you have not done that before.

Cons – Financial Flexibility every year - kind of like the D&B Hunger Games where they just pick a certain number of people in different areas to lay off that are supposedly not bringing value. Although, they have chosen people who were definitely very capable and valuable.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop having reps manage the whole contract process, it is a total drain on time and resources. D&B is famous for minimizing resources and just sucking the life out of everyone because they are doing the job of 6 people. Stop being so pennywise and dollar dumb or whatever that saying is. Invest in some resources so that your sales people can be out selling instead of strapped to a computer all the time managing contracts.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at D&B as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – A good place to start a career and learn about how the business runs.

Cons – Some decade old systems are still being used, need to upgrade their internal systems. Limited Job growth

Advice to Senior Management – Hire less contractors from overseas and more Americans

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at D&B full-time

Pros – helping businesses grow and fairly building honest relationships

Cons – the work environment, leadership, politics, leadership

Advice to Senior Management – open your eyes

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company