One year maximum - Anonymous employee Hanover Research Employee Review

The cons vastly outweighed the pros for me, for the following reasons. 1) The people aren't supported, and internal politics rules all. All the researchers I knew, including myself, felt extremely disempowered when it came to impacting research methodology. On a monthly basis, if not more regularly, I would strongly recommend certain ways of doing a project to make it the most successful, and I was always dismissed by my manager. Internal politics among middle management also routinely caught research associates and analysts in the crossfire--using erroneous claims about our work quality to undercut other managers, but injuring the analysts' reputations in the process. 2) Tight timelines. The apparent goal is to please clients, but some clients know better AND it's not a good business model. The company grew too fast and invested in sales rather than sound research and strategic client targeting. As a result, researchers felt that we were constantly pressed with tighter and tighter timelines, with no room to experiment, learn, or even to do our best with each project we were given. 3) No reseach expertise among upper management. Fellow analysts and I routinely recommended against doing a project that sounded unfeasible--with the tools available, it was clear to us from the beginning that we would be unable to execute. 95% of the time those warnings fell on deaf ears as the manager had already proposed and promised the work to the client, and we were told to "just try our best." Then of course, when, as expected, the project was unsuccessful after many months of failed attempts, we bore part of the blame. That was unacceptable.