Where careers go to stagnate - Senior Director Kantar Employee Review

2.0
6 Jul 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Generous time off benefits; flexibility around setting my schedule and where I work (within reason). Frankly, these are the ONLY reasons I've stayed as long as I have.

Cons

Frequent reorgs and layoffs as management chases elusive growth, without clear strategy. Back-end functions (operations, IT, panel management) are not held accountable for numerous and often client-visible quality issues, resulting in client service team spending considerable time cleaning up messes and creating intense workload. Many barriers to career growth and promotion. Management says they are committed to promoting from within, but turn around and bring in outsiders for VP roles. When there are promotions, they go to younger team members. Once you pass 40, expect to be stuck in your current position indefinitely. No raises in 2 1/2 years; bonuses are slim if they happen at all.

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2.0
30 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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