Sinking ship, look elsewhere - Software Development Engineer Kantar Employee Review

1.0
Jun 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- flexible hours - standard benefits

Cons

- 30%+ BELOW standard market salary - performance review is a joke, do not expect more than 2% annual adjustments (if you are lucky) and/or bonus - lost onshore staffs are not replaced, extra workload is distributed to those unfortunate existing staffs meanwhile without readjusting deadlines to more reasonable values - new core flagship products are mainly developed by incompetent outsource groups across the other side of the globe and without proper management and assessment - absolutely NO career advancement - there are more C/D levels combined than the actual product workers - unrealistic deadlines while the whole company is clearly understaffed, even with the outsource groups accounted for - HR is virtually nonexistent, company will do nothing to keep talents

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2.0
May 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Hard working associates, mostly bright (and admirable) heads of department. Good benefits. Previous CEO seemed like a genuinely nice guy and would listen to you if you approached him about something.

Cons

There’s a lot of reasons why top notch talent has long jumped ship. Great at sounding smart…terrible at actually getting the revenue to avoid the wholesale data asset sell offs going on. Terribly overcomplicated product portfolios with inflexible solutions at higher costs than smaller leading agencies that have outpaced them. Department heads gaslighting everyone under VPs about performance when they aren’t winning the internal Hunger Games and are told to reduce headcount.

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