Mintel Employee Reviews about "low salaries"

Pros

1) very people oriented and leads by kindness always. 2)People are amazing and teams give you room to grow 3)Support Career enhancement. If you want to learn, this is your place. 4)Priority to work-life balance and mental health

Cons

1)Salary reviews don't happen often and is dependent only on your manager 2) I made the mistake of leaving Mintel, when another agency gave me better salary. Amongst research agencies, Mintel is the only company that values it's employees' welfare

Pros

The people are great and the offices are really nice. In addition the culture is very relaxed and informal which is good.

Cons

The salaries are not competitive and also not equal. In addition whilst there is working from home there is no flexible hours policy and the opportunities for progression are not good.

Pros

Share different culture and the people friendly

Cons

not good salary is offered and needs to impreove

Pros

Good work/life balance. Most people go home at 5.30. Get to work with some smart people although some of the smartest leave quite quickly. Good training ground for analysts. Working with lots of information like market data and consumer research is a great training ground for other jobs. The company spends on social events. Relaxed and friendly office culture. Nice offices in a nice location.

Cons

It's been said lots of times before on Glassdoor but salaries are badr but salaries are badr but salaries are bad on the research side. Salary progression is through merit and the raises are miserly even when they are given. Management throw money at social events like Friday afternoon drinks in the office and Christmas parties and they spend on coffee machines and fancy offices. All the time, most staff are wondering why they cannot spend on salaries. Pensions are the minimum required by British law so are pretty worthless. Mintel seems to rely on young employees not being bothered by really poor pensions. It looks like upper management do not value the staff. On the face of it upper management are 'in touch'. They are good at giving quarterly updates on company's performance and the chief executive hot-desks like the rest of the staff but they seem blind to the discontent among staff on progression and salaries. They must know the gripes among staff but ignore them. A lot of this is because the company is run by people who have been there for many years. Upper management consists completely of people who have worked themselves up through the company. Those that get there are those who don't rock the boat which means the culture at the top is very conservative and new ideas and fresh thinking are stifled by the absence of any fresh blood from outside. This means the product doesn't change much. A Mintel report produced now will be very similar to one produced ten or fifteen years ago apart from superficial changes like fan chart forecast. The company needs to be much more innovative. There's a small company attitude. The lifers running the company moved up the ranks while Mintel was a smaller company. It has acquired other companies and expanded its coverage in the recent past but it is still run like a small company, in other words pretty amateurishly. The low salaries, lousy pensions and no real progression are the result.

Pros

I honestly look forward to seeing the people I work with.

Cons

The salaries are abysmal and we've been losing people like crazy. And the benefits are terrible.

Pros

They say a lot of positive things about themselves in public. Their public image is controlled strictly by a few people at Mintel, by PR team, good reputation on the outside. Might look good on CV? GNPD is a good product. The company does things no other professional firms want to do like Nielson, GfK, Eurominitor. GNPD is basically Mintel paying absolutely rock-bottom minimum wage to field agents around the world to buy consumer goods. Those goods are delivered to Mintel offices and minimum-waged employees photograph them, input necessary information on Mintel's system and Mintel sells subscription to this list. Useful for marketing, corporate planning professionals. Great product (no sarcasm).

Cons

I have to start with this one. The salary is rock-bottom. Not even enough to live on. As other reviewers say the turnover is incredibly high and the company relies on one-off employees. Most that produce research are on minimum-wage. The management has a wrong idea about cost-cutting. They are always trying to find stupid employees that can't get a job elsewhere and are willing to take minimum wage jobs. You would be lucky to take home £7 an hour (after taxes). Is 14k (yes pretax!) a good salary for someone who works in London? I felt sorry and ashamed every time I had to speak with employees from GNPD. Employees have no loyalty to the company. Do what you preach to your clients. Everything is done cheaply - employees are getting paid to do google search. One client actually told me that they can easily find the data we sell on the internet. Not even good for due diligence purposes. I thought the client had it right, but couldn't confirm it at all. What researchers call trade interview is cold-calling, nothing more. We have no capabilities to do field interview as Nielson or GfK do (we are too cheap to pay telephone interviewers!) and can't design questionnaires properly. Employees are uneducated. This is industry-wide, but the HR look for cheap labour, hence stupid employees. I can't remember if there are any with a MBA. Well, I suppose Google-search doesn't need a degree from Cambridge. But that puts us in a difficult position - we are selling products to people who are smarter and happier than us. How is that possible? Contradictory management. They say one thing such as internal promotion is prevalent, but most feel absolutely stuck on their roles. There are no vertical career progression, just horizontal career change (if you get what I mean?). If employees were 10 years younger, they would leave immediately. My colleagues left not to work for another company, but to become unemployed. Most work at Mintel. not because they want to, but because they have to so that we can feed ourselves. There is no motivation for employees to do a good job. The company rather want you do less work than do more and get paid more. That reduces the take for owners of the company. Strong and powerful HR that just stand in everyone's way. I constantly questioned what Mintel actually did, what value we added to clients. Yes, we have pushy sales people (who can't do anything else including myself) and the PR team that do everything to polish the public image, but products we are selling are just not good enough. Clients don't use us the same way they use Gartner, Nielson or GfK. No company wants to cite us in their 10k, but think about it, why would strategic consultants, investment bankers or corporate planners who are much smarter than our researchers want to hear what our researchers think? They don't want to hear our analysis or read Mintel Oxgen reports (most of which are based on googling!). Management consider our researchers to be disposable and do not look after them at all! Mintel is a house of cards. We don't have much to sell. Growth of the revenues comes from pushy salespeople who know how to sign up clients, at least for a short period of time. And finding even less sophisticated clients for next year.

Pros

Nice environment and good benefits

Cons

Low salaries and they don't appreciate certain skills.

Pros

I met wonderful colleagues here.

Cons

Management was not really good. And the salary was poor.

Pros

Great People to learn from

Cons

Salary and tends to be good at many things but not great at one