The doers are underappreciated - Director Kantar Employee Review

1.0
Dec 29, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Immediate colleagues are smart and helpful; generous time off benefits (though workload is making it more difficult to leverage time off); great deal of flexibility to work remotely (on some teams)

Cons

It was a good place to work, but has gone downhill the past couple years since Millward Brown management took over. Hard work goes unappreciated. It is commonplace to put in 55 to 60 hour weeks without any acknowledgement of the sacrifices you make. Management focus is on sales, without any thought to how we will actually execute the work. Even employees in non-sales positions are expected to drop everything to help clinch a sale. Salary increases are minuscule, if they happen at all. Bonus plans only exist for the executive team, who as far as the rest of us can tell, offer no value-add.

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2.0
May 30, 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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