Upper management does not walk the talk - Senior Associate Kantar Employee Review

2.0
21 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great exposure to various industries and markets - Opportunity to work with large brands - Very involved in the market research projects from start to end - Relatively younger demographic, people from junior-mid level ranks get along well

Cons

- Extremely poor work life balance that has been going on for far too long. Upper management is intent on reducing manpower, no intention to replace or hire additional support when people leave. Juniors are tasked to handle tedious operational checks, report writing and project setup with limited support and tight deadlines, resulting in late night OTs being a common sight. The workload between junior-mid level and upper management often feels disproportionate. Resourcing proves to be futile as senior level/ managers do not try and alleviate workload from juniors as it is supposedly not "profitable" for them. Upper management keeps throwing out 'automation' for more manual, time consuming tasks but it never gets implemented lol. - Upper management needs to be more receptive to feedback. All talk about Kantar being a flat hierarchy when it is the opposite. They single out those who are more vocal, and are defensive and dismissive during feedback sessions - Lack of proper training on accounts and categories.

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1.0
18 Jun 2026
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Pros

None. Literally none. Amazing that I cannot think of a single thing. I’m staying because the job market is awful otherwise I am out of here.

Cons

- carousel of management. Changing every several months - constant reorganization, hired for a role you want then moved to a role without input as a part of a reorganization - employees of set up to fail - management is suspect in their talent and ability to build a culture worth having - trying to “scale” products without a client first mentality - profits over people - legacy remote work allows people to skate by without actually doing work - history of hiring suspect CEOs because of nepotism - people get paid obscene amounts for doing little work. And if they do work, it is so awful.

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