A Stepping Stone Job, But Look Elsewhere If You Can - Market Research Project Manager Kantar Employee Review

1.0
1 June 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Immediate Co-Workers are Great, WFH potential, PTO, Paid Holidays, Benefits.

Cons

PM Salary is Grossly Below Average & Workload is Very High With Unrealistic Expectations. Poor Upper Management & Communication: - Different teams don't communicate well with each other - Upper management doesn't try to facilitate education between teams and on each team's role and how to work together - Lack of understanding perpetuates the issue of work coming in and then becomes the day-to-day workers' task to reset feasibility expectations Competitive Culture & Poor Work Life Balance - Employees work long days, much more than normal workday and lunch is rarely taken due to intensely high workload - Get-the-job-done-no-matter-what mentality. Once told it didn't matter if it was 11 pm on New Year's Eve. Minimal Upward or Lateral Career Advancement: - Talented people get told there is potential for promotion, but the opportunity never actually comes around - The PM role hits a ceiling very quickly, even if you do get promoted

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1.0
18 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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