Highly disfunctional but best market research expertise in the industry - Product Manager Kantar Employee Review

2.0
Jul 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

* If you like market research, this is the place for you * Most employees can still work remotely * Senior executives communicate widely and frequently with the organization * Good Senior HR executive trying to make good changes for company culture * Company is global

Cons

* Company tends to repeat the same mistakes over and over * Very low salaries * Many employees in the U.S. have to work UK hours in order to keep up. Center of influence is in the UK * Too much overlap across roles and unwillingness to address the problem * Too many hostile executives trying to take over each other's function and causing headaches for employees * Deep layer of VPs protecting access to senior managers * Many managers that don't always fit company values * Many people get away with simply refusing to work with other teams * No collaboration and no trust even within small teams * Changes resulting from recent merger with another company are causing many people with great industry knowledge to leave or move to other divisions

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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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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