Toxic and no growth in pay and career - Researcher Kantar Employee Review

2.0
Sep 17, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good work, good learning opportunities, global network of clients, good analytics learning, good domain specialisation. Some good rules like extra holiday for maternity, family crisis, paternity, etc.

Cons

Very low pay increase. You get promoted only if your senior leaves or is promoted. You dont get promoted on merit but promotion is decided on vacancy. You have to show high utilisation on timesheet otherwise your manager will make life hell. If your team utlisation is not above 85% then even if someone resigns in your team, you will not get replacement and your target will not be reduced by saying your team utlisation is low so you dont need more people. Your pay will only see 3-4% increase each year even if your rating is 4 and your career will not move so you have stagnation feeling always in you.

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2.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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