Kantar Employee Reviews

Although you can learn a lot and your manager and team member will help you to go through the learning curve. But politics and extension beyond working hours is a norm. You have to work on weekends also sometime. You will get very good exposure here. Reworking is an issue and can be monotonous sometimes. Toxic work culture.

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Senior Software Engineer (Current Employee) - India - September 16, 2023

Good Work, Average Pay, Good work environment, Less Employee Benefits, Great Higher Management, Great learning opportunities for freshers, Start up work culture

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Insights into Kantar

Based on 10 survey responses

What people like

Inclusive work environment
Feeling of personal appreciation
Support from manager

Areas for improvement

Fair pay for job
Energizing work tasks
Time and location flexibility

Fun work place

Data Processing and Scripting (Current Employee) - Pune, Maharashtra - August 31, 2023

Basically work wise it is good company to work with. But if you have huge aspirations of working in IT Sector it is not for you. As this is completely new world of Marketing research. Working environment is very good. They many sports activities for people engagement best example is Kantar Premier League. 2-3 Outing in a year and occupational lunches and dinners

Pros

Occasional lunches and dinners, outings sports events like KPL

Cons

Less base salary

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Terrible Management but lots to learn

Research Manager (Former Employee) - Mumbai - June 14, 2023

If you are someone who constantly wants to learn, good because you will. But there's no work-life balance at least not in the team I was in. My direct manager was terrible, 3 months into joining, we had hardly chatted. She had belittled me when I decided to work from home one day. Everything depended on her mood & I hated it.

Pros

No such benefits, subsidized cafeteria prices, no special discounts. Just a yearly 15k benefit for purchasing WFH stuff.

Cons

Terrible management, you will have to figure out things on your own. My manager was terrible but my teammates were nice, so I could reach out to them for help. But yeah, nothing great.

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Fun workplace

Project Manager (Former Employee) - Mumbai, India - May 18, 2023

The workplace is good with helpful people / colleagues around. However, not much to learn. Politics at higher management level and growth is very slow.

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Productive and fun workplace.

Senior Consultant (Former Employee) - Bangalore - February 2, 2023

Great Managers and extensive Client exposure with good learning opportunities.Fun workplace and good work life balance. Extensive growth opportunities.

Pros

Flexible working hours, recognition of talent, supportive work environment

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A good learning place with not so great work life balance

Account Manager (Former Employee) - Mumbai Central, Mumbai, Maharashtra - November 16, 2022

It's a good place to learn within the market research domain but it becomes really difficult to have a work life balance across most of the teams. Salary benefits are okay but most of the people are burned out after a point of time.

Pros

Learning

Cons

Lack of proper work life balance

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Helpful peers but no work life balance

Associate Director (Former Employee) - Gurgaon, Haryana - October 12, 2022

Need to improve on work life balance. Need to find a way to co-ordinate better with teams sitting across the world. Some people end up working from 9 am to 2 am because of people sitting across the world

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A process driven company

Senior Manager Training and Process Compliance (Former Employee) - Pune - September 14, 2022

This organization allows employees to grow. Ethics and values are integral part of this organization. People and process driven company. This company has good appraisal and performance review mechanisms with variable pay systems. Also also good HR support to cater employee needs. Training needs are addressed on key essential areas by setting a yearly training calender. Seniors are suppoting employees in terms of day to day requirments and make them work at ease.

Pros

throws up more challeges

Cons

more quantum of work

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Good learning. Horrible work hours and work load.

Research Associate (Former Employee) - Mumbai - July 25, 2022

Promise too much to clients. Lots of work and few employees to service it. Comparatively low pay to other marketing roles ( eg. brand management ) and for the amount of output expected from employee. Good learning. Supporting team members. Overall depends on person, how they perceive it.

Pros

Motivating team members.

Cons

Overwork. Working on weekends. Comparatively low pay.

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Culture

Account Manager (Former Employee) - Kolkata, West Bengal - June 26, 2022

This is a local brand for Kolkata, people are good but culture for me can be far better. You may have to work till 4am in the morning. So think before you join.

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overall good company with good pay benefits and good for fresher to explore new opportunities.

data processing analyst (Former Employee) - Hyderabad, Telangana - April 11, 2022

Recommended for a fresher to explore the opportunities and adapt to corporate environment but internal politics. One should be very careful while working with CS teams, if anything is wrong then you are done for the entire year. No hikes.

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Too much pressure

Programmer (Current Employee) - Pune, Maharashtra - April 1, 2022

Old technologies, too much stress, the technology and method is very old, pressure and long working hours, job security is good, hike is less as compared to other IT company

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PROJECT MANAGER & TRANSLATION HEAD (Former Employee) - Delhi, Delhi - March 23, 2022

Good overall company, My Reporting boss was good , he given me freedom to do work as per my style , he only concernd about he is not going to anything from management, rest he always supports to team and everyone his team , clear sense of teams management

Pros

Good food

Cons

Flexible

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Worklife balance with no growth

Analyst (Former Employee) - Pune, Maharashtra - February 23, 2022

Worklife balance with no growth.learned many skills but only Kantar specific. Management is gooda typical day at workwhat you learnedmanagementworkplace culturethe hardest part of the jobthe most enjoyable part of the jobd

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There was no work-life balance. At the time of pandemic many employees were terminated.

Associate Manager Analysis (Former Employee) - Kolkata, West Bengal - February 17, 2022

There was no work-life balance. At the time of pandemic many employees were terminated.Management is not good. Projects were not distributed properly. Biasedness at the time of review.

Pros

Free snacks

Cons

Long hours

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Joy ful atmosphere

Marketing Research Intern (Former Employee) - Mumbai India - December 5, 2020

It is all about the getting your work done over their . They don't care how you are doing it but they want their work to be done at the end of the day.

Pros

Good work life balance

Cons

No fix stipend

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Despite being an MNC, the mindset of the company is of a startup

Research Manager (Former Employee) - Bangalore - November 27, 2020

Despite being an MNC, the company acted very much like start up by laying off key people from the firm. With decades of operating as a major player in Research & Consulting field. It is unacceptable by the firm to lay off people rather than adjusting pay cuts or other measures...

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Minimal salary not worth the stress

Senior Research Manager (Former Employee) - Mumbai, Maharashtra - July 14, 2020

Working at Kantar was highly stressful, compounded by the low increments.. it was not worth it. Senior Management did not even try to change things to make life better. Very high attrition.

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Good company to work

Senior Analyst (Former Employee) - Hyderabad, Telangana - May 11, 2020

I worked with kantar for 3 years. Pros : Good company to start the career. Nice perks and incentives WFH Flexibility in timings. Good management Employee friendly company

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Great place to work

Senior programmer (Former Employee) - Hyderabad - April 21, 2020

Great place to work! The work culture is very good. There is good amount of fun and work both at the same time. I did not find such type of company so far! I feel proud working for Kantar.