No growth potential + HR Nightmare - Anonymous employee Kantar Employee Review

1.0
Mar 22, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Junior team is smart and tightknit. Promotions can be much faster here than at other companies if you play the game right.

Cons

"Casual" culture goes way too far - making fun of clients and employees, openly judging employees' appearances, promotions based around kissing exec team's butts, emotional bullying from senior team. Long hours filled with mundane, meaningless work. No real, transferrable skills learned here. Most of the time people goof off and end up staying late just to show their face. Pay is embarrassingly low. For a culture that prides itself on being upscale, the salaries are 20K less than other companies.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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