Equifax reviews

3.9

76% would recommend to a friend

(3,412 total reviews)
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Mark Begor

86% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Equifax has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 3,412 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Equifax employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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3K reviews
2.0
Oct 4, 2015

Vice President

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Pros

The people who do the day to day work to keep the wheels turning and the lights on are highly conscientious and hard working. Good people doing good work and generally enjoying the daily challenges. The company is growing and people are generally upbeat and optimistic about the future. Equifax respects your personal time and doesn't expect you to work on weekends or demand crazy overtime hours to demonstrate commitment. The culture is pretty much a 9-5 mindset. The parking lots are empty before 8 and after 5. CEO is one of the best. when it comes to laying out a vision and a strategy. You can't argue with his success and what he's done for shareholders over the last 10 years. He's also a good person, which is rare when it comes to CEOs. The only knock against him would be that he's not a good judge of talent. He's hired some duds and keeps non-performing poor leaders around way too long.

Cons

There is little or no opportunity for promotion beyond the VP level. Executive level politics are horrible, and although they talk about a "meritocracy", it's just a sound bite. Promotions are awarded more like a beauty contest than based on performance. Compensation is below average. If you stay longer than 3 years you get left behind on your compensation and they hire new people in at much higher salary levels. Also, the disparity in pay between the Senior Leadership Team and the rest of the company is HUGE. Benefits package is expensive and keeps getting more expensive every year as the company pushes more of the cost down to the employees.

2.0
Aug 11, 2022
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Pros

Average benefits and pay, a lot of good people work there

Cons

Leadership all the way to the c-suite - say they want to be agile and then do everything in their power from the top down to micromanage. They have both a project management department throughout the company and scrum masters - except they expect scrum masters to be project managers embedded within the teams. No growth for scrum masters, no understanding of what a scrum master job actually is. No room to disagree with any decisions around processes and culture. Being a very large corporation you're also dealing with all the red-tape that entails to even get a simple job done. Product owners are not empowered, they are forced into being the stereotypical "jira backlog manager".

1.0
Jun 16, 2022

Dead End

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Pros

Good work life balance Some roles are fully remote

Cons

Equifax is a very sales and finance-focused organization. If you are NOT joining sales or finance, move on and consider other opportunities besides Equifax. There is a lot of talk about Equifax trying to become a product-led company but it could not be farther from the truth. The product leaders at Equifax USIS business don't have any meaningful product or leadership experience. They act more like cheerleaders. The product town halls are amusing at best. There is a general lack of resources to get work done. Equifax doesn't seem to care about its customers. There is a lot of talk about being customer-first. However, it is used by Sales for empire building without any meaningful customer impact. Equifax is one of the three credit bureaus in the country besides Experian and Transunion. But, Equifax takes the prize in taking the credit bureau and making it a bureaucracy that puts even the Federal government to shame. Overall a very uninspiring environment.

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