What is the hiring process like at Kantar?

Fast and efficient hiring process Organized and structured onboarding

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this company has very good HR , and has very good, big and important clients.

the workload is too much, the schedules are much overwork, the pace is super fast, and every project is stressful. so this rate of people leaving the company and hiring new people is very big,

Good interview process at Kantar

4 difficult rounds to get hired

Very competitive product and solutions, a lot of learning resources

Complicated internal process, comparatively conservative culture

Still mostly allow remote work Lots of time off.

18 months ago this would have been a 4 or 5 star review. The profiles leadership team made several changes in the last 2 years that has led to a dysfunctional, toxic group at the senior and C level positions. Acquired another successful company, tried to merge them into one, and fired anyone with knowledge who would have made this a successful merger. Now there are two flailing companies with in fighting about what to do at every level. The panel team had three straight years of record growth, then fired the head of the panel to bring in a product person with no experience in what they were hired to do. After the new hire received terrible marks on their survey score, the blame was pushed to the middle managers on not understanding the "transformation" they were undergoing. Now those middle managers and their employees are fighting with each other, driving the bad culture throughout the org. The toxic culture has lead to an exodus of the A players on the paid media marketing side of the org, which is the primary driver of revenue for the team. The only division in the company that has had a mass exodus and the protected C level is able to blame it on everything other than themselves. Constant bullying and threatening your team is not transformation, it's just signs of an ineffective leader in over their head. Oh the pay is also well below any other tech company.

Kantar is superficially nice, like the west coast - they say the right things, celebrate Pride and diversity, etc. Work-life balance is good.

Their primary product is restructuring - they are owned by a private equity firm with inscrutable goals that is constantly shuffling people around, laying them off and hiring new people for less money. The executives try, but there are too many of them and it's abundantly clear that they don't really have that much power to do anything, so they get inflated job titles instead. The layoffs seem completely random - you'll be working on a project with someone and then they're just gone. People get magically laid off right before the 3 year 401k vestment period would have ended and the matching funds disappear.

Lovely people and supportive atmosphere, day-to-day work is challenging and satisfying, you have a great support network with the people you work alongside

Company is clawing back every penny they can, slashing perks left and right, taking away budgets for things like travel and internal events, silently making chunks of the workforce redundant and not communicating anything properly (most significant pieces of news are learned through the grapevine). The company has a freeze on promotions and new hires but promotes some individuals secretly, leading to tension among the workforce and driving out talent.

In my tenure I survived four rounds of layoffs and managed to move up a few rungs on the ladder and advance my career. Health insurance was good, benefits like flex time off and maternity leave was also good. I was lucky with my managers and got some good people. Remote work was nice too.

Compensation is pretty terrible. It doesn't match your advancement either. Ten years and multiple promotions in I was 40% behind the market and they promised to match me to the market after x amount of time in a new role if I jumped through certain hoops. I did my part, they did not do theirs. The excuse was hiring freeze and budget (which is always the excuse for the years of missed/miniscule raises). So, I took my expertise and left for a new position. Lesson learned: don't stick around a place like this too long if you want to keep up with the economy, even if you like your work.

Smart and lovely people. Really great data.

Blanket decisions taken by senior management who don't know the reality of the field and that employees need to compensate for. (Unprofitable tech investments, slow recruitment process, below average salary increases,...)

In my tenure I survived four rounds of layoffs and managed to move up a few rungs on the ladder and advance my career. Health insurance was good, benefits like flex time off and maternity leave was also good. I was lucky with my managers and got some good people. Remote work was nice too.

Compensation is pretty terrible. It doesn't match your advancement either. Ten years and multiple promotions in I was 40% behind the market and they promised to match me to the market after x amount of time in a new role if I jumped through certain hoops. I did my part, they did not do theirs. The excuse was hiring freeze and budget (which is always the excuse for the years of missed/miniscule raises). So, I took my expertise and left for a new position. Lesson learned: don't stick around a place like this too long if you want to keep up with the economy, even if you like your work.