RELX reviews

4.1

88% would recommend to a friend

(789 total reviews)

Erik Engstrom

88% approve of CEO

83% positive business outlook

RELX has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 789 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The RELX employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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789 reviews
1.0
Apr 15, 2015

Terrible

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Learnt a lot but only through my own research

Cons

very low pay; disregard for anyone outside sales; no training, no opportunities for career progression; very political environment, only people who gossip and befriend the management during after-hours drinks are well seen and promoted...don't waste your time here, it would be a huge dissapointment

2.0
Jul 10, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

great benefits, pay and commission ok for someone kicking off their career (sales person) and knows how to negotiate, learn about Compliance, KYC and Payments, since 2015 well structured training programme and new starter on-boarding process, great location and superbly nice people, attendance to conferences if you're picked or have valid reason, travelling (but can get exhausting,too)

Cons

senior management short-sighted, zero transparency in course of strategy, sudden redundancies caused by sudden change of strategy (fear among sales people who could be hit next), SM treat all markets in the same way resulting in frustrated sales people, target distribution unfair for new starters, pretty much everyone outside sales is not recognized, aggressive targets lead to uncontrolled sales causing relationships to customers being destroyed, old tech equipment (or those which are new are poor quality), little back office support to pick up the sales (investing in sales people but neglect back office resources), little career progression (if you don't stay in sales there is little you can go to)

1.0
Apr 22, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Location and work-life balance. Friendly and multi-cultural team

Cons

Sales might be ok if they don’t think too much what snake oil they sell. Technical departments are a joke. A lot of really good professionals managed by incompetent people and projects run by really uninformed ego-driven businessmen. Claim to build a modern web based software, but not fit to it at all. Hard to push anything through. Would say that project-wise and process-wise they’re stuck in early 2000’s. Ruined projects mean finding scapegoats in tech teams. Except some small perks, bonus system and pay raise are a joke.

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