Good place to start a career, but below par incentives for performing employees - Associate Research Manager Kantar Employee Review

3.0
May 25, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent place to learn the tenants of market research. Good quality processes in place to conduct the research study. Senior Management has market understanding - that provides interesting insights. opportunity to work end-to-end projects.

Cons

Client Servicing opportunity is dependent on immediate manager; Projects can get repetitive during the course of 3 years. Won't be managing a team without a minimum of 3 years experience. Pay Hike is marginal in the first 3 years.Appraisal structure is non-existent - KPO's not well defined.

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5.0
Feb 3, 2026
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Pros

Various career paths open if you have broad interest

Cons

Very large company, can be tough to navigate at times

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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