Agency = burnout - Recensione dipendente - Senior Associate, Client Leadership presso Kantar

3,0
12 feb 2024
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

-Benefits, unlimited PTO -Mostly remote (at the time) -Great coworkers -Good upward mobility (often promote internally) -Tons of training available; fantastic onboarding program -Managing multiple accounts can be good for people who like a little bit of everything

Svantaggi

-It's an agency; aka high stress, quick turnarounds, lots of ad hoc work, limited room for error, managing multiple accounts -Upper management was in meetings all day, so the people in middle management had to pick up the slack; they were account leads but were also often the experts on the day to day, so they were stretched thin. (I was more junior, but I could tell how hard those people were working) -I burnt out so badly; I swear that job would have killed me had I stayed any longer (though I should have known that I'm very much not cut out for agency work) -Constant turnover of middle management (at one point, I had an account where we had 100% turnover for the CL team and PL team (6-ish people) in one year - at least in part due to the lack of resources -Unclear direction/management due to mergers and acquisitions - lost 3 of 4 SVPs in the first year of working there -Outsourcing of the Data Design team meant that the US Client Leadership team had to pick up the slack from losing most of the US Data Design team -Talk the talk but don't walk the walk - there were lots of goals at the company that didn't end up coming to fruition e.g., inclusion and diversity

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5,0
22 giu 2026
Consiglia
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Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Strong team environment and collaboration Some of the brightest and most forward-thinking colleagues in Market Research Well-respected company brand

Svantaggi

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1,0
18 giu 2026
Consiglia
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Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

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.

Svantaggi

- 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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