All promise, empty prestige - Anonymous employee Kantar Employee Review

1.0
Jul 12, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Sometimes it feels nice to go into the office because of how spacious it is, but being forced back was a nightmare for most of our teams. we would get there to full seats at the CHRO and CEO's requests and then there was no actual work for any of us to do.

Cons

Kantar lies to candidates and employees about their initiatives to promote and grow your career at the company. Kantar's executives have to say this to keep their numbers high, hoping for a Bain Capital fund injection or an IPO. The more heads they have working on a google or uber client project, the more they can bill clients, and then you get let go. It's a terrible work environment and the CSuite Execs in NYC are the poorest of leaders in the business. All smoke and mirrors.

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2.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
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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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