Dynata has become a shell of the former glory that both RN and SSI had - both companies certainly had their own issues, but they weren't complete disasters. After the merger, along with the additional M&A after that big one, everything went down hill with a blazing speed. Not only will you legitimately NEVER have a chance to get a real promotion, you'll have to fight at every turn to even get a 1-2% raise each year, regardless of your actual performance (don't worry, they essentially force managers to give low ratings since in their minds, if you are rated a 5 out of 5 on anything, you should be the CEO, and you're not, so you must be inferior and in need of a mediocre review). Pouring actual blood, sweat, and tears into a job where you're overworked and vastly underpaid will get you absolutely nowhere. They'll also swear that they do research into market value salaries, but it's complete poppycock - we all know tons of people at other companies in the industry, doing the same exact job with less stress and 20-30% higher salaries, at a minimum. Not only that, but if you do somehow manage to scrape your way to a halfway decent salary after about a decade (and you're not one of the "favorites"), you'll just be stripped of any responsibility and well-performing accounts you had, and then laid off since you make too much money and no longer "contribute" anything of value. Don't even think about counting on bonuses - they'll find any way in the world to not pay you what you're owed (and don't expect to understand how bonuses are even calculated - there's no reasonable formula, and it's up to discretion anyway). Upper management is so incredibly out of touch it's laughable. All of the supposed work they do to communicate with the lowly peons is pure lip service, they couldn't care less about the people that actually DO the work. The perfect example is the CEO giving a post-layoff speech from his own personal wine cellar - talk about not reading the room. The newly adopted "less restrictive" non-compete is also infuriating, given that they spent the last decade ensuring that no one could go to ANY company that did ANYTHING they did (given that they are a completely full-service company in the industry, it means people would have to leave the industry if they wanted to get away - something that is completely not feasible for most people to just drop everything and start at the bottom of another industry). Systems are a disaster and nobody is even willing to acknowledge the problems and find a way to fix them - they will forever stick bandaids over the issues and continue to let the sales folks run amuck and sell unicorn projects while leaving the project/account management teams to clean up the messes (while sales continues to make the highest compensations for putting everyone else in terrible positions). STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM THIS DINOSAUR AS POSSIBLE - it will drain you of all your will to even function as a human being.
