Experience almost entirely depends on team and manager - Senior Associate Kantar Employee Review

2.0
10 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Experience can be amazing with the right team and manager, which depends on luck and a whole lot of persuading Somewhat cool product methodologies

Cons

Meaningless work - if your quality of experience is mostly dependent on the team, it also means that work is meaningless, just constantly churning reports one after another. If you are all right with client management, report writing, and presentations then this job has decent opportunities Work-life balance is barely there - no active reduction of workload, lots of unspoken expectations to complete work over the night and weekend. Again this depends on the team Extremely limited in technical skills growth - most work is outsourced to vendors in favour of squeezing timelines. Only emphasis is placed on learning about Kantar's products, but none on basic research methodologies and analytical methods important for the industry which limits career progression Hardly any skills differentiation between employees of the same level, only difference is the client account you do which can be a plus point for those thinking about jumping to the client side Managing operations is tedious and executives need a lot of handholding

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1.0
18 Jun 2026
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Pros

None. Literally none. Amazing that I cannot think of a single thing. I’m staying because the job market is awful otherwise I am out of here.

Cons

- carousel of management. Changing every several months - constant reorganization, hired for a role you want then moved to a role without input as a part of a reorganization - employees of set up to fail - management is suspect in their talent and ability to build a culture worth having - trying to “scale” products without a client first mentality - profits over people - legacy remote work allows people to skate by without actually doing work - history of hiring suspect CEOs because of nepotism - people get paid obscene amounts for doing little work. And if they do work, it is so awful.

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