Kantar reviews

"Casual" culture goes way too far - making fun of clients and employees, openly judging employees' appearances, promotions based around kissing exec team's butts, emotional bullying from senior team. Long hours filled with mundane, meaningless work. No real, transferrable skills learned here. Most of the time people goof off and end up staying late just to show their face. Pay is embarrassingly low. For a culture that prides itself on being upscale, the salaries are 20K less than other companies.

-Most of senior management is underqualified for their position and lean heavily on untrained, inexperienced junior staff to do the legwork. When things go wrong as a result nobody takes accountability. -The CEO is deliberately abrasive and highly manipulative, especially in convincing junior staff to join or stay. "You are a star," "You are a future leader of this company," "You have all the opportunity in the world here." Applies to everyone -Unsustainable turnover -Below-average pay -Overpromise to clients to win business then wing it because nobody has experience with that work -Gossip culture and favoritism -Hypocrisy of what is said vs done -No training or teaching for new hires -No real investment in team or concern for team's wellbeing and happiness; "like it or leave" mentality -Promise of growth and the title you reach is not recognized by the industry outside Vermeer's walls -The list goes on...