A Sinking Ship - Anonymous employee Dynata Employee Review

1.0
Mar 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Strong relations with co-workers - Casual work environment - Company tries to have fun - Mostly flexible schedule (depending on the job) - Work can be interesting if you get on the right team (Big Data, Mobile) - Team rooms (for some)

Cons

- No opportunity for advancement. They expect people to churn, and they don't care, so don't expect to get ahead - The company pretends to follow a "High Performance Work Place" methodology, but it is mostly lip service, especially in the Engineering organization. - This isn't Google or a Startup: it's a 10+ year old company carrying a lot of outdated baggage. Core business logic in Oracle stored procedures is the norm. - The Market Research industry is changing dramatically, and Research Now has been caught flat footed by the changes. There is lots of talk about catching up, but this is a company ripe for disruption. Look at what's happening at SurveyMonkey to understand the disruption. - At its core, this company is about spamming people with emails to try to get them to take surveys for a pittance of compensation. It is a low-integrity activity which is troublesome to invest your reputation in. - Lots of churn. The sales organization has been completely gutted and the CEO left at the end of last year.

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Pros

flexable hours and reliiable pay for the hours you work. paid bi-weekly

Cons

you had a quota of calls you had to have daily and complete surveys. I could not make people answer their phones. i had to keep people on phone to complete surveys. some surveys would take 30mins! i could get completes. but i got cussed at and screamed at very regularly. i could still get a complete survey even being cussed at. but they kept making itarder with new quota requirements. it became a job that was way too stressful. hours dried up after presidential election. it wasnt very reliable on hours.

2.0
May 29, 2026
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Pros

Peers are dedicated to each other and success of the team.

Cons

8+ presidents club winners have resigned in the last 12 months. North America sales leadership operates at a sales manager level and not a strategic thinker or executive leader. Comp plan is designed to hit 90-95% goal and not pay commissions.

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