Private Equity Company =Toxic Environment - Product Manager Circana Employee Review

2.0
19 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fully Remote, Good work/life balance. Great people within the Irish Office.

Cons

Well below average salary where they tend to use location(even though the company is now fully remote) and the fact its a Market Research company as the main reason why($8 Billion compnay valuation lol) Salary conversations usually go "Well we cant match Z salary as thats the salary paid at software and Z tech companies and we are only a market research company" EU teams carry out most of the work for less reward in comparison to US counterparts(High Salaries). Toxic environment since merger with a number of redundancies, leading to people either: 1. Attempting to overcompensate or 2.Extreme coasting(go missing, fade into the background).

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
28 Mar 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

Depending on the team/account, can be a good place to work with lots of flexibility. Again, highly dependent on the team. Decent amount of company holidays, remote work is available to most (if not all) US employees.

Cons

Can be a brutal workload if you get placed on the wrong team. Management seems to have a problem with overloading people with work that other people don't want to do, burning them out, then finding other people to repeat the process with. Some teams do basically nothing but just act busy and complain about everyone else. Declining base offers to new employees, not a good look. Also nobody on my team has had anything more than a 3% salary adjustment in over two years. "Unlimited" PTO, would much rather accrue time off/have the option to be paid out for time off. Some employees are eligible for an annual bonus, but this bonus fluctuates depending on the performance of the company as a whole and you really have no control over whether you get the full amount or anything at all - totally up to the discretion of the C-suite, which is stupid because they use this as a major selling point when you sign on.

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