Toxic Work Culture at its peak - Senior Research Manager Kantar Employee Review

2.0
7 Jul 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent Salary and Work from home

Cons

Terrible work culture especially in the Kolkata office. The managers do not think of you as a human but merely a "Resource" and expect you to work like a robot. Zero work life balance. When i say zero, i mean zero. Almost everyday you are expected to work till 11PM and that is on the normal days. On bad days, you might see youself working till 3-4AM. Most teams are severely understaffed and there is immense workload on the individual employees. The work is also monotonous and heavy on manual cumbersome work. Managers have zero respect for your personal time, will call at odd hours and weekends and will use unethical ways to arm twist you into falling in line with their absurd and unrealistic expectations. There is also a lot of politics involved. Do not join if you are looking to lead a happy life.

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1.0
18 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

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.

Cons

- 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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