You all are being hard on Refinitiv - I worked there for a year and a half and it was pretty great. Actually, I should say I "worked" there for a half a year. They had some pretty awful projects and there wasn't much real work going on. The last couple months I got the opportunity to train TCS staff to do my job. This was great, because TCS is essentially a lower rung staffing firm with people spread about India. Those guys were looking for their next job and had no real long-term interest in learning or doing mine. Since they had no real skin in the game, I didn't really have to train them. Instead, I could focus entirely on modernizing my skills and job hunting for the last several months. Best of all, after I left the company, they continued to pay me for 7 more months! The reason behind this was Refinitiv had this brilliant plan to consolidate Refinitiv IT staff to 'centers of excellence' while closing down smaller offices. Get this, they completed most of it one month before the pandemic happened! I'm sure they have started to bring back these employees to the centers of excellence. As everyone knows, the top IT talent is clamouring to go back to an office! Or maybe, centers of excellence meant 'your home office in the basement'.
Refinitiv was great to keep paying me for several more months after my final day and offer health care. I didn't really need that because I got a job offer the following week - but it was cool to get that. For those who are still there, I'm sure Refinitiv is doing a lot to keep you there amid a tight labour market. I know I'm making over 25% more than I was at Refinitiv as are most of the co-workers that left at the same time. So if you were good enough not to be replaced by TCS, you must be good and raises must be growing a lot faster than inflation.