Corporate culture, corporate characters - Anonymous employee Kantar Employee Review

1.0
Apr 10, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great place for learning corporate politics

Cons

Corrosive corporate culture. This is a place where you have to tick all the right boxes and act in the right manner at all times if you want to progress within the company. This sounds right until you realise that you have to be at the same level as Lightspeed's Senior Management. This is a corrosive workplace populated by Maquiavellans, Narcissists and Psycopaths - the top management is there because they have been able to master each of those characters. They have mastered the ability to accentuate their part in the positive, while downplaying the negatives. The have a great talent for acquiring and taking credit for others' ideas. If you thrive in that environment, you will be rewarded, if you do your job feeding your line manager and don't play the game, you will be valued for the wrong reasons: you will not have a great chance to progress.

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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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