Research Associate - Research Associate Ipsos Employee Review

I wish I could leave a negative star review...that's how bad it was to work there. Firstly, you can throw out the idea of any sort of work/life balance here. You're basically expected to work 60+ hour weeks without compensation. I've had coworkers who had to take their laptop and work during their vacation abroad and work in the middle of the night to sync with North America hours. Also, don't expect to receive any sort of compensation or recognition. If you want to be ambitious and get promoted, they'll give you a laundry list of things you need to do to get ahead and then you go above and beyond and deliver on all those things, they will just take all the benefits of your work but not give you the recognition or promotion. If you're in a satellite office, don't expect to get any sort of promotion or recognition. Only team members in the same office as upper management will get recognition for not doing a single thing. Forget about personal growth too. I wanted to take a course to try and make myself and my team better but it felt like coming up against a brick wall as upper management are penny pinchers and will question you to death how it will help the team even though it is SO apparent how the team will benefit. Don't get sucked into the lure of a big corporation, you're better off developing your career elsewhere. I wasted 3 years of my life here.