Forever "re-structuring" leading to outdated methods and unhappy employees - Research Manager Kantar Employee Review

2.0
Aug 7, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good reputation (good for the CV) - Opportunity to work with high profile clients (Google, BBC, UEFA etc.) - Hard-working, nice group of people

Cons

- Endless restructuring, allocating huge amounts of resources on internal change with little benefit for internal or external stakeholders - Some people cry at work, and that's not only tolerated among junior members but mirrored by their direct line managers - Firmly stuck in old-school thinking on research, creating undue stress for junior members turning the wheel and ultimately producing unsatisfactory work for the client - Senior management acknowledges none of the major issues, claiming there is a strong, supportive working culture, and instead, as one senior member put it, they "bury [their] head in the sand"

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2.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

Hard working associates, mostly bright (and admirable) heads of department. Good benefits. Previous CEO seemed like a genuinely nice guy and would listen to you if you approached him about something.

Cons

There’s a lot of reasons why top notch talent has long jumped ship. Great at sounding smart…terrible at actually getting the revenue to avoid the wholesale data asset sell offs going on. Terribly overcomplicated product portfolios with inflexible solutions at higher costs than smaller leading agencies that have outpaced them. Department heads gaslighting everyone under VPs about performance when they aren’t winning the internal Hunger Games and are told to reduce headcount.

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