Pros
Nice, mostly easy to work with people that want to do a good job.
Cons
EMS's best years are behind it. It's a business run by financial people who see every employee as a prospective money-saving cut to be made. It's best assets are certainly not its people, as they are expendable. The more you make, the more at risk you are. An example of this was last year's wholesale layoff of people in the NYC office, moving jobs to ill-prepared employees in Costa Rica making a fraction of what the New York employees made. The Costa Rican employees were unprepared, and Experian was forced to make offers to people they had previously laid off. Technology was ignored and not invested in for years, and so Cheetah started losing clients to competitors. With little in-house innovation talent, they were forced to buy a not-ready-for-primetime "cross-channel" platform that was panned by Forrester. The Cheetahmail/Cross-Channel Marketing Marketing has not had a leader in a year. Most senior marketing and product development people have left, pushed out or fired over the past 6 months. The latest Experian Marketing Suite is just nice window-dressing on top of existing products.