It was great before Bain took over - Anonymous employee Kantar Employee Review

2.0
Feb 6, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly colleagues (for the most part), good office culture, variety of clients, great place to start your career, well-known name in the industry

Cons

Private equity has slowly turned this place into a sweatshop. Overworked and underpaid employees who keep dropping like flies. People leaving left and right and senior leadership firing people left and right. When I first started, this was a great place to work and now everytime I think about this place I shudder about how much I endured. Not to mention the lack of promotions, pay disparities between employees at the same level, and the amount of politicking it takes just to even be considered for a promotion. Some people will even do shady things to ensure you're pushed out.

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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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