D&B Reviews

Former Employee – worked at D&B full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Exposure to learning across various sectors
Informal Hierarchy
Senior are open to ideas from subrdinates

Cons – They pay lower than industry standards

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – learning,aspect is very good,It a good to start organisation,The co-workers are intelligent so it will add to learning.Its a competitive organisation

Cons – The workload is often high,office politics,Working on multiple projects can be hard but is required.No cab to office.Slow interview process

Advice to Senior Management – Raise Salaries in response to work

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Good colleagues to work with

Cons – Lacks vision and does not take into consideration the client requirements when deciding on product or product segments.
They just pressurise employees to work hard without any recognition or any kind of training.
Too much of partiality.
Company is run by inexperienced professionals who has no clue about competition eating into their business.

Advice to Senior Management – Please work on the cons mentioned

No, I would not 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 a year

Pros – nice opportunity after 2 to 3 years

Cons – very heay burdon of work no limit

Advice to Senior Management – give priority to time

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at D&B

Pros – Its a good place for experienced professional.

Cons – Its not so good a place for Fresher

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at D&B

Pros – Provides Flexibility but depends on the supervisor.

Cons – Not great place to learn new things since most work is maintaining systems.
Not much work for BA's since not much development work.

Advice to Senior Management – Communicate well and more.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at D&B as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Will be exposed to various departments and learn about the business structure of the company

Cons – Fresh graduates will have a harder time in choosing the department you prefer.

Former Employee – worked at D&B full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Salary was "ok", Benefits were "ok"

Cons – Management will lie to you...do as I say not as I do.

Advice to Senior Management – Be accountable and don't throw your staff under the bus to save your own hide.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – most of the office personal was nice, I enjoyed my co-workers and direct supervisor

Cons – it is an awful inside sales job. The hand you recycled leads and complain when you cannot turn them into new sales. Most of the work is cold calling people who did not know their company had a business credit report then you over charge them for access to it.

Advice to Senior Management – stop with the bad leads to the smile and dial factory floor. The training is awful, support non-existent, and yet it was presented, daily, as if it was the best thing since sliced bread

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

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.