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      PitchBook

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      3.2

      41% would recommend to a friend

      (732 total reviews)

      Rod Diefendorf

      34% approve of CEO

      30% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Compensation and benefits

      2.8

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      PitchBook has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 732 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PitchBook employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.5 stars).

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      732 reviews
      2.0
      Jun 14, 2017

      Buyer Beware: Maybe good for some, but not for most

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      1. People: While working at PitchBook, I have gotten to know some great people. Its definitely a place that, assuming it wasn't work, you could have a lot of fun with the people around you. 2. Office Location/Space: Downtown Seattle. Close to light rail, easy commute from U District, central to everything. Office is nice, clean, modern. 3. Some benefits: 401(k) match is pretty good (partial match up to 7%), health insurance is good and pretty cheap. That is where it ends but those are pretty notable.

      Cons

      1. Salary/Total Comp very low: Across the board (but more so in some departments than others) total comp is below market. PitchBook will tell you its competitive and at every company-wide meeting leadership will bat down this topic every single time. Truth is that everyone is underpaid and they use "gaining experience" as the justification to pay less. Oh and try having a conversation about your comp relative to your responsibilities. 2. Leadership: This varies greatly by department, but there are plenty of people who were in the right place at the right time and now find themselves in key roles for which they have little experience or qualification. This is problematic because they can't mentor their reports nor can they do their job. They keep getting promoted because they're part of the old PB club and have been around long enough. Good luck working under one of these people, you can kiss your chances for any kind of advancement or recognition goodbye. They're not leaving anytime soon. 3. Career Paths/Advancement: No professional development or career path at PitchBook. No obvious career track outside of advancement from very low-pay entry-level to some type of menial office work earning slightly more. 4. Remote Working: There is no work from home at PitchBook. I repeat, how dare you even consider working from home? By extension, eight hours of office face time is requisite. It doesn't matter what you are doing, but 8 hours of your day better be at PitchBook. Most people don't even have laptops so you couldn't work from home if you wanted to. This is all justified by the need to "create a culture and interact with our colleagues" but the real reason is that leadership doesn't trust people to do work if they are not in-office. Pretty sad.

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      PitchBook Response
      9y
      Thank you for taking the time to provide such valuable feedback about your experience at PitchBook Data, Inc. We understand that individual growth is important and strive to provide opportunities to grow professionally. Most recently, we have kicked off Management training that will provide managers with the tools needed to effectively manage their teams and help guide career conversations. And based on recent feedback, we have committed to outlining career paths throughout the entire company that will help employees advance their careers. We hope that both of these initiatives will help set the stage for success and for employees to understand their long term career path at PitchBook Data, Inc.
      4.0
      Jun 2, 2017

      Great place to grow

      Sdr
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Young company, fun atmosphere Interesting product Room for growth

      Cons

      Growing pains of any small company

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      PitchBook Response
      9y
      Thank you for stopping by to share your experience at PitchBook Data, Inc. We really appreciate you highlighting so much of what makes PitchBook a great place to work; the people, a fun work atmosphere and a one of a kind product.
      1.0
      Jun 1, 2017

      Don't get stuck here, take any other offers you get

      Research team member
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - Any entry level employee you work with will be young and will not have much relevant experience to the position they are in (just like you). This is what the company uses to sell you on, "you can grow a lot here", meaning they will hire you without any skills needed for your position. Great opportunity to learn that most of the positions here are unfulfilling, low paying and micromanaged. - Company likes to tout how the care about employees, but actions speak louder than words here. - Easy to make friends, misery loves company right? - You can get really good at entering data into a database. You can get really good at telling outsourced team members in India that their grammar is bad and it needs to improve. You can also become an expert in micromanaging your colleagues. - You will have a great chance to gain interviewing skills as you help interview replacements for your colleagues that quit. - Nominal raises will maybe get you to 46k after working for 2+ years at a minimum, pay is only increased with time, level of responsibility does not matter. - You are given a laptop to work from home when you need to communicate with data entry teams in India. Company policy is clear that employees are not allowed to work from home during normal working hours. You are only allowed to work additional hours at home. So if you love to work overtime without pay this is a pro. - Instead of higher pay you get access to beer in the office and alcohol-centric team building events quarterly. - Anytime you give feedback to management about how to improve work the environment you will be told it is taken "seriously" (leading to absolutely no change at all).

      Cons

      - Job descriptions are deceptive and misleading. Your day to day work will not resemble the posted job description. - You are micromanaged down to the minute on the research team. You are literally required to email your manager and your manager's manager how you spent every minute of your day. Clearly management does not trust employees to use time effectively. You are required to track the amount of emails sent, phone calls made, lines of data entered. The entire process is mindnumbing. Amazing that as many people stick around as long as they do. - Benefits are not outstanding in any way, par for the course in the industry. - Office "perks" are not out of the ordinary for any tech company. - Passive aggressive emails will be sent anytime the team laughs too much during workday, this has happened 3 times in the past year. But don't worry the company values are "Make it fun", just not during working hours... - Revolving door of coworkers. Get used to training people how to do things you hate doing yourself. When new hires come on, managers will ask you to micromanage them as well. - Most research positions do not have transferable skills outside of company. Unless you want to continue your career in data entry! - Research Department moral is incredibly low. Most employees bond by talking about how they want to quit. - Not a good place to work at if you do not enjoy consuming alcohol. - Entire management team is white and male (big surprise huh?) - You will be told to "focus on focus" and be forced to keep a straight face as that is a legitimate company value. - The best people here leave, leaving the lowest common denominator to get kicked up the ladder. They specifically do not hire any management level positions in Research as anyone with experience would be appalled at paltry pay, poor communication styles and soul-crushing low moral. - You know this place is not a "great place to work at" when the recruiters don't even stay a year. - After consistently telling management you are underpaid, after seeing numerous coworkers quit and talk about how much better it is elsewhere, and after offering many thoughtful/legitimate ways to improve employee moral, you will be painted as a whiny, demanding millennial who just uses glassdoor to complain.

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