Ipsos Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Ipsos full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Are upfront with financial numbers to employees

Cons – CEO of NA rules a dicatorship so if you do great work, but don't kiss her butt watch your back

Advice to Senior Management – Retain your talent rather than allowing them to walk out the door because they don't trust you

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ipsos full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The employees (not management) support each other a lot. We work together to solve problems and spread out the work when it is overwhelming.

Cons – Management has no idea what is going on at the lower levels. They don't understand how hard we are working, how long things actually take and why we, like everyone else, need to actually follow processes that have been set in place. Everyone at the lower levels is stressed and frustrated.

Advice to Senior Management – There is a lot of work and not enough employees on the team to cover the workload. We work long hours and the work/life balance is very skewed. People are very unhappy. Mistakes are being made because of the work overload, pressure and lack of support. Once mistakes are made, we are reprimanded harshly for making them. No one is trying to find the root of the issue.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Ipsos full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Professional development and industry experience

Cons – Organized dysfunction and mediocre results, lack of ability to get simple things done

Advice to Senior Management – If you were the client, would you be satisfied?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ipsos

Pros – If one is client facing, it's a great place to gain some experience. However, not many people are client facing and those that are overworked.

Cons – The financial focus is all encompassing. Internal monthly reports rarely, if ever, touch upon the clients satisfaction with the Ipsos deliverables.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Ipsos

Pros – -Really nice coworkers
-Mostly competent people
-Can come in at 9am instead of 8am
-Decent benefits
-Free bagels once a month

Cons – -overly micro-managed
-boring, repetetive tasks
-nobody leaves before 7pm
-tight arbitrary deadlines
-alternate between over-worked and nothing to do
-no client interaction
-too much detail-checking, not enough big-picture stuff
-zero creativity involved
-blanket promotions allow the wrong people to become managers
-really high turn-over
-no work-life balance
-very political- all depents on whims of sr. manager
-some people can get away with murder, while others (me) are micro-managed to death

Advice to Senior Management – Treat people in entry-level positions like intelligent human beings. We are not machines, who can just check numbers for 10 hrs a day.

Former Employee – worked at Ipsos

Pros – It's a big company with all the perks you'd expect from one in terms of benefits.
Most people I interacted with outside the SF office seemed capable, respectful, and deserving of their titles. (Wish I could say the same for the SF office...)

Cons – In this particular office (because I can't speak to any others) leadership is extremely poor, employee morale is very low, and some people in management roles should definitely not be in them.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Ipsos

Pros – Open environment, collaborative, and friendly

Cons – They are a research company but as you advance you do less research and more sales. Will not get recognition for good work.

Advice to Senior Management – More transparency

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ipsos

Pros – - A lot of Holidays and vacation given
- Ability to work with high profile clients
- The people are nice

Cons – - Little to no area for advancement
- Meaningless work
- Viewed by many as a place to get your experience and move elsewhere
- Very 'bottom dollar' focused

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more opportunities for advancement and also show a sincere desire to develop your employees. Don't focus on the bottom dollar as much in the short term.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ipsos

Pros – A positive point about Ipsos is the amount of space that seniors give juniors in putting together proposals and reports.

Cons – The downsides of Ipsos is the amount of work compared to the salary. Also the promotion scheme is somewhat unfair towards outsiders.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more open minded to outsiders who come into the company. More opportunies need to be provided to outsiders who come in.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Ipsos full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Some amazingly talented researchers work at Ipsos and most are more than happy to provide support, help and advice when it's needed.

Cons – -- Too much emphasis on using only Ipsos products/methods for research. While standardization of can maximize profits, it does not meet the research needs for many of the Fortune 100 companies.
-- Business units are silos so there is no incentive for those in operations to pay attention to project budgets. Likewise, it makes it difficult to chip in and help on a project for a BU different than your own.
-- No respect for older employees. Recent layoffs have overwhelmingly been among employees 40+. They don't want to pay the salaries for experienced employees.

Advice to Senior Management – It seems like profits are a higher priority than good market research. Put good, creative and cutting edge research in the forefront and profit will follow.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend