Mintel Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Great work life balance in all areas

Cons

Pay might be below average

Pros

Very flexible and good work life balance

Cons

Growth opportunities are very slim. Management does not help the employee grow

Pros

Mintel seems to collect wonderful people who are great to know. And who only stay 6 months before they realise what the company is actually like and leave, or realise their career has no future there, and leave. The clients are interesting and in general quite engaged with Mintel's offering. Work across a breadth of industries. Good work-life balance, in theory, but in reality it entirely depends who your boss is and what their attitude to working late and early and weekends is.

Cons

Everyone has said it, and I will throw my hat into the ring as well: the salary is atrocious. I got a 30% higher salary for a very similar role when I moved, which shows how drastically I was being underpaid. Aside from that, trying to get a salary raise if you are not one of management's favourites is nigh on impossible. After a year and a half of working there, I was told there was no room in the budget for raises, despite knowing that others in my team had been given raises. Which leads me on to another big problem: career progression: given that there is no actual system in place, it is entirely up to individual bosses to push for development of the team. Not only was I told there was no room in the budget for a raise, having achieved all my targets, but there was no suggestion of how to work towards a raise. Never mind actual career progression, which is impossible unless you have been at Mintel at least 5 years, or have someone in management pushing for you to be developed. As I mentioned above, they have issues with fairness, even within small teams. Intense favouritism and politics within teams is the norm, and there is absolutely no mechanism for reporting this outside of the boss doing the favouritism. The company places a lot of emphasis on 'fun' however company politics is rife, and the culture is more competitive and aggressive than 'fun'. A quirky office does not a fun place to work make. The company rewards time in service more than quality of work. Training is non-existent. Work life balance depends entirely on your boss: mine unfortunately believed that more time at your desk=better quality work.

Pros

Welcoming to inexperienced employees Very little pressure Good work life balance A good place to start your early career before going somewhere else.

Cons

Low pay. Writhe with incompetence at the project management level meaning lots of time is wasted on pointless tasks. Due to the lack of benefits and low pay most competent or ambitious people tend to leave after a few years. This means the company is full of people who either are just content with the easy life or inexperienced people who are junior and haven't got tired of the terrible upper management yet. The small handful of people who are highly competent and have chosen to stay are heavily relied on to keep the company alive.

Pros

Great work life balance People here are generally kind and easy to work with Product is interesting I truly enjoyed my time here

Cons

A lot of management is based in HQ, they don't understand the market in APAC yet still insist on controlling operations within UK. Also out of touch with compensation Lack of career growth despite asking for more responsibilities

Pros

Friendly work life balance for office staff

Cons

- poor salary - bureaucratic leaders/manager - a complacent organization which isn't gearing up to face the tough competition - weak researchers

Pros

good stepping stone and work/life balance

Cons

extremely micromanaged by management and low compensation

Pros

- flexible working hours - had a lot of self-autonomy - very good work life balance

Cons

- salary was lower than industry standard - little to no salary growth - very little career growth

Pros

I can only think of three - Good work life balance - Young team, and lots of emphasis on social events - Intersting work and projects

Cons

-Way below market salary wage with little chance of increase -Sexist pay structure, men in the team paid more than women for the same job -Staff are not looked after very little opportunity for career progression, as a result very high staff turnover

Pros

Work life balance is good

Cons

Career development is a bit slow