This company does not deserve any type of success because of how they treat their employees - Anonymous employee TD International Employee Review

1.0
22 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

U get sparkling water in the fridge that runs out 80% of the time

Cons

They really expect you to write two reports a day, with “client ready” quality report, no mess ups or research misses, and do it again the next day five times a week. Sometimes these reports will take the whole day and then you’ll be on the hook trying to write the second one til 8pm and because everyone else also had a lot on their plate, they are not able to help you. You have 26 year olds as department leads that are desperately trying to prove themselves in front of their boomer partners(that gets paid 500k to 1 mil) and will not hire more people on their team. People leave after nine months to a year and middle management will get forever stuck in the cycle of hiring over-qualified new grads, hoping they stick around long enough so they can also review, work them til they’re bone dry, rinse and repeat. This company do not care about their people and that’s why they will always be stuck in a position where all they can do is beg clients to take them on. People are constantly overworked and getting off at 6pm is considered “early”. Management at TDI have no understanding of a life outside of work for their junior employees and expects everyone to slave away for the company, they expect people to work like bankers and consultants, but does not pay them like it. DO NOT listen to the review below that says they will try to improve their employees workload to under 40 hours range. Partners care too much about profit margin, and senior associates care too much about their own promotion and bonuses to actually make a difference.

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5.0
24 Sept 2025
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Pros

Great benefits Smart and brilliant leadership with a heart You are just not a number, your thoughts and your voice are heard Your contributions are valued, have impact and it matters A happy place to be!

Cons

None. This is a great company to work for!

1.0
2 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- great collective of junior analysts that you trauma bond with. Everyone is overworked and underpaid and that creates a shared struggle. - some team leads are great and will cover for your if you make a mistake - again, there are a lot of smart, overqualified analysts that you can have very interesting conversations with and learn from - as previously detailed, there’s sometimes seltzer in the fridge

Cons

- extremely long hours for meaningless work. Sometimes it feels like a sweatshop. They try to be forward about awful work/life balance, but them being forward doesn’t change the fact they this work is soul-crushing. After 3-4 months, expect 9-8 and 9-9 be very common. This especially applies if you speak a critical language like Arabic. - they expect you two write 2 reports and find EVERYTHING about the subject, even if this stuff is outside of scope and outside of standard research procedure. Sometimes, they expect you to know the most niche things about random jurisdictions. With lack of industry-specific or jurisdiction-specific expertise, it comes harder and harder to consistently find everything. - the workload distribution is very uneven. They don’t really scope out reports before assigning them and so you end up with some people having reports that are no longer than 500 words and some people having to spend the whole 8 hours on a report. Still, you’re expected to write two a day. - pay does not commensurate with the quality of work expected from analysts. They expect these “client-ready” reports that are perfect and haven’t missed anything, but only willing to pay you 60,000$ a year. There’s no problem with offering lower pay, but you should expect less quality in work with lower pay. It’s hard to care about each report when you know you can make comparable salary bartending at a nearby bar. - you don’t get to build an expertise. You get random reports in random jurisdictions and subsequently you never really learn specific knowledge about regions or jurisdictions that makes you a better, more defined analyst in the long run.

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