Horrible experience - Anonymous employee Kantar Employee Review

1.0
1 Nov 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Hard-working and passionate colleagues - Good office location right near Madison Square Park - Good mix of clients from leading B2C and B2B organizations

Cons

Leadership is absent at best, manipulative at worst. The partners pick favorites based on social capital, not an objective view of performance or quality of work. As a junior team member, there is no respect for work/life balance, but you're being paid as a marketer, not an investment banker. The pay structure at Vermeer incentivizes partners to grind the junior team. Plus, the work itself is very lackluster and mostly segmentations, even though Vermeer brands itself as much more than that. Perhaps the biggest con at Vermeer is the culture. It is absolutely unlike anything I've ever experienced, and it's impossible to describe. The egos at Vermeer are insane. Employees dress in suit and tie to assert their importance. Superficiality is valued. To succeed at Vermeer, you need to be willing to give up your morals. Those who are unwilling leave in under a year. I highly recommend that any potential new hires address any concerns head on. This place is exactly what you are afriad it might be.

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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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