Company is good, management is toxic - Software Engineer Kantar Employee Review

2.0
13 Jan 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Nice office in Porto Matosinhos - Good starting salary - Nice projects to implement with interesting technologies and challenges

Cons

- Toxic management that spreads a toxic work environment between co-workers - Promotions based on fake visibility and personal friendships instead of real value and effort - The above point creates a toxic competitive environment where some people influenced by this, are more willing to let others sink instead of collaborating and actually delivering value to Kantar - As you can imagine Kantar does not benefit at all from this, because people are competing and showing-off instead of delivering - Only managers and seniors have bonuses - Daily mandatory sync calls at the end of the day usually to talk about mostly nothing (that time could be used to actually work and then switch off, but no, we have to sit there and listen and lose half an hour of work and even more sometimes) - Strict mandatory 2 days per week at the office. If you can’t make it, you have to provide a plausible reason to your manager (and the managers will decide if it is plausible or not)

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2.0
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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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