What is a typical working day like at Kantar?

- Great exposure to various industries and markets - Opportunity to work with large brands - Very involved in the market research projects from start to end - Relatively younger demographic, people from junior-mid level ranks get along well

- Extremely poor work life balance that has been going on for far too long. Upper management is intent on reducing manpower, no intention to replace or hire additional support when people leave. Juniors are tasked to handle tedious operational checks, report writing and project setup with limited support and tight deadlines, resulting in late night OTs being a common sight. The workload between junior-mid level and upper management often feels disproportionate. Resourcing proves to be futile as senior level/ managers do not try and alleviate workload from juniors as it is supposedly not "profitable" for them. Upper management keeps throwing out 'automation' for more manual, time consuming tasks but it never gets implemented lol. - Upper management needs to be more receptive to feedback. All talk about Kantar being a flat hierarchy when it is the opposite. They single out those who are more vocal, and are defensive and dismissive during feedback sessions - Lack of proper training on accounts and categories.

Good pay for fresh graduate

Long working hours, always work until night time

Experience can be amazing with the right team and manager, which depends on luck and a whole lot of persuading Somewhat cool product methodologies

Meaningless work - if your quality of experience is mostly dependent on the team, it also means that work is meaningless, just constantly churning reports one after another. If you are all right with client management, report writing, and presentations then this job has decent opportunities Work-life balance is barely there - no active reduction of workload, lots of unspoken expectations to complete work over the night and weekend. Again this depends on the team Extremely limited in technical skills growth - most work is outsourced to vendors in favour of squeezing timelines. Only emphasis is placed on learning about Kantar's products, but none on basic research methodologies and analytical methods important for the industry which limits career progression Hardly any skills differentiation between employees of the same level, only difference is the client account you do which can be a plus point for those thinking about jumping to the client side Managing operations is tedious and executives need a lot of handholding