Kantar reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(5,988 total reviews)
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Chris Jansen

75% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Kantar has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 5,988 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kantar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Administración y consultoría industry (3.7 stars).

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6K reviews
1.0
Jun 10, 2019

Underpay Employees, Terrible Leadership, Look elsewhere

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Since late 2018 there haven't been any.

Cons

Managers/Leadership - Once someone goes to management their focus is away from the product and how it performs and then shifts to how to squeeze as much money out of clients possible regardless of reliability. Doesnt depend on product performance (no matter if it is dated and never updated) it is only on you if you dont make numbers. All of the products are super dated and the only updates are to how it looks - never functionality. All Kantar wants is sales numbers - slapping new lipstick on a pig isn't going to make it more appealing. Yet the products get more and more expensive every year...weird How they treat employees - With them selling off to a VC fund don't expect any wage growth anytime soon. I also spoke with multiple employees who said they never saw a raise and they had worked there for 5+ years. Whatever base pay you start with is what you have for your tenure..do not let them tell you otherwise. They claim to offer tuition reimbursement or Job training for school that pertains to your role, but they will silo you into only "selling" and never give you money for these services. This would give you additional skillsets to market elsewhere and counter to what they are trying to accomplish. Will only offer training around selling kantar products and never growing industry knowledge There is no Job Growth. Company is constantly being bought out or consolidated and roles are consistently eliminated.

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Thank you for sharing your feedback with us, though we are sorry to hear of your experience. Your feedback is important to us, and we will share this with the appropriate teams to ensure we continue to learn and grow.
2.0
Sep 3, 2018

Working hard is rarely acknowledged.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Ability to work from home and flexible schedule around appointments.

Cons

Pretty much everything else. Research Ops team now has more new people than senior and employees with valuable knowledge are under appreciated and unhappy.

1.0
Aug 14, 2018
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Pros

1) You learn to struggle and learn

Cons

1) They hire you at decent package but increment is less than 7 percent even if you are top rated employee (For Kolkata Division) 2) To get an average rating too you have to work 13-14 Hours a day 3) One of their criteria to hire in Kolkata is to hire those who have some kind of reason to stay in Kolkata 4) Lots and lots of Politics 5) Preference to people who can butter senior management 6) Non of the senior management is from good MBA college 7) Attrition of More than 40 percent (Till Mid Senior Level) 8) Lies to Client regarding resource skills and experience 9) Number of senior employees (who sit and order) more than number of Junior employees 10) They give you shares and take it back when you leave 11) Every year increment is low around 2-5 % stating that profit has decreased, still Dividend amount keeps on increasing 12) Future of company is dark as all profit is distributed by way of Dividends and no expense on Training and Development and no expense on using new technology in research 13) You will get half salary what your peers get in few years 14) People get divorced, sick, stay unmarried because of work load 15) Management interferes in personal life of its employees and are kind of Agony aunts 16) Shady offices in shady areas

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