Great learning emphasis - Associate Research Director Ipsos Employee Review

4.0
12 Mar 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent training on solutions and market research in general. ASI has strong equity among clients and has good tracking solutions. The senior leadership team is passionate about advertising research and leads the market in innovation in this field. Pays well and has good benefits relative to other research agencies

Cons

The WBSL's operate like silos - little interaction between groups. Cross country and cross WBSL opportunities are small and not encouraged. The organization structure runs on strong hierarchies and is quite political - a lot of what you achieve depends on who likes you among the senior team. Given this reliance on senior management, career progression paths are not defined clearly in all markets

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Cons

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Plenty of opportunities and various locations

Cons

You work your tail off using gas, mileage, time, energy, tolls, and consistent but the authenticator who sit in the comfort of their home find any and everything wrong with the survey you fill out. Then, you don't get paid. Their portal that you are supposed to use while on location has connectivity issues or whatever reason they decide to blame it on. So far, I've lost $500.00 with this company. There are many other mystery shopping companies who don't try to cheat you out of money. If I had to guess, they use your pictures and get THEIR money but won't pay their contractors. I would suggest shopping for any other company besides Ipsos!

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