Would not recommend - Special Handling TransUnion Employee Review

2.0
Jun 10, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great pay, yearly raises if you perform well. Fun company parties and some incentives they offer, just not very often. Fun around the holidays. Good health benefits and options. Lots of programs for personal life balance and discounts.

Cons

The pay is not worth the stress. You can prove yourself so often and not be promoted. It's all about who you know in the department to progress. They have lost many many great employees for the treatment and negative atmosphere. Special Handling is the core of the company and faces customers more than most, and the department is so stressful and the goals are absurd. You never get your voice heard for what's really important. Lots of people feel like an outcast there. I hear other departments aren't good either but I know with my experience I would never recommend this department. The atmosphere is scary and miserable. You can feel it walking in. The goals are unfair and you are majorly micromanaged. Not a very independent job at all.

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