Ipsos reviews

The obvious ones - low salary, terrible working hours. That's the primary reason there are no Swiss working in the company (they get better salary anywhere else, plus Swiss are very strict when it comes to working beyond official hours, weekends, holidays etc. which is a common standard in the office). Burn-outs are common thing here, there is at least one almost every month. Cons that become obvious soon after joining - no onboarding, training or any kind of support whatsoever. The whole concept of teamwork hasn't arrived here yet. Once you're in, you're on your own. There are no (functional) processes either - basically every project is negotiating everything internally from the scratch. The upside is, you'll feel a lot like an entrepreneur, handling everything from A to Z. The donwside is, there will be several entrepreneurial projects at once, with no support and no resources besides your own two hands. There is no career progression planned or discussed (lot's of people drop-off during their first two years anyways) and there is glass-ceiling for non-French workers (only French get promoted into top management positions). Management is the worst I've experienced in my professional live, as in reality, there is none. There is no vision and strategy, let alone the plan, the company is serving the sole purpose of being the money machine for the Ipsos group. Everything is run by numbers with quarter-to-quarter horizon (actually, financial objectives are officialy communicated by the management as the vision). When numbers are hit, benefits go only to top management and not cascaded to regular workers. When numbers are not delivered, regular workers are being dropped-off. When it comes to working conditions, only thing you're provided with is drinking water and papers. You're buing your own pen, coffee etc., nothing is provided by the company. Laptop (mostly 3+ old one) is standard for managers, lot's of execs still have stationary PC. Mobile phone is a privilege of Client Service Directors and above, so most of people are forced to use their own phones for client interactions (company doesn't reimburse client phone calls though). Company credit cards don't exist, so when travelling for business, you're covering all expenses yourself and hope they get reimbursed properly next month (in case of a trans-continental flight with several days stay, you can easily have 5+k CHF tied up in an expense). To sum it up, you won't be hard-pressed to find a place with better working conditions, basically anywhere in Europe.

Targets are unrealistic and pay is poor for the amount of effort required to do the job. The advertised pay of £65 to £92 per day is misleading as you can only achieve this if you meet unattainable targets, otherwise is much less. The work is hard and isolating as you work on your own so you need to be very self-motivated and determined. There is a lot of rejection involved in going door to door and sometimes people can be abusive which can be quite disheartening and soul destroying. Management offer some telephone support, but are not very sympathetic. They can be patronising and expect you to work in all weather conditions with little reward.