It was great before Bain took over - Anonymous employee Kantar Employee Review

2.0
6 Feb 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly colleagues (for the most part), good office culture, variety of clients, great place to start your career, well-known name in the industry

Cons

Private equity has slowly turned this place into a sweatshop. Overworked and underpaid employees who keep dropping like flies. People leaving left and right and senior leadership firing people left and right. When I first started, this was a great place to work and now everytime I think about this place I shudder about how much I endured. Not to mention the lack of promotions, pay disparities between employees at the same level, and the amount of politicking it takes just to even be considered for a promotion. Some people will even do shady things to ensure you're pushed out.

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1.0
18 June 2026
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Pros

None. Literally none. Amazing that I cannot think of a single thing. I’m staying because the job market is awful otherwise I am out of here.

Cons

- carousel of management. Changing every several months - constant reorganization, hired for a role you want then moved to a role without input as a part of a reorganization - employees of set up to fail - management is suspect in their talent and ability to build a culture worth having - trying to “scale” products without a client first mentality - profits over people - legacy remote work allows people to skate by without actually doing work - history of hiring suspect CEOs because of nepotism - people get paid obscene amounts for doing little work. And if they do work, it is so awful.

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