Circana reviews

I'm pretty sure every 5 star review they have is fake or current employees trying to boost the appearance of the company. In all of my time there, since the merger i haven't heard a single person talk about how happy they are with their job or the company as a whole. I've never worked for such a poorly managed company. They'll lay off dozens of employees with no backfill, and then yell at the remaining employees for not keeping up with the workload. They'll call you on weekends, vacations, nights, etc because only a few people know the systems anymore after each round of layoffs. And then they'll contact terminated employees to ask about the systems they left behind. Higher ups literally don't know what their engineers do on a daily basis, it's basically "make it work and we're happy to ignore you completely and allow you the grace of having a job but if there's a hiccup then you're going to be laid off without warning next quarter." There is no company culture, no matter how much they try to make it seem like there is one on the "town halls" every few months. Nobody wants to watch you dance to disco music on a Zoom call with a fake smile on your face before a webinar when they're all worried about getting fired every waking minute. People sign on, are miserable all day, get overworked, and sign off. It is not a "cameras on" culture so you just talk to initials or icons all day, and its incredibly depressing. There's no clear direction for the company, it seems like employees are on a stationary bicycle being whipped because they aren't moving forward. Salary discrepancy is insane within teams. If this company isn't dissolved or sold off by H&F within 5 years I'll be astounded.

Senior leaders are incredibly out of touch with the employee experience, particularly after the merger and particularly if you originated from NPD (which was a much more collaborative company). There are certain bullies in senior leadership that intimidate, which trickles down everywhere. Teams are expected to practically become programmers to learn a new data system with absolutely no practical training, and mid-upper leaders offer no actual leadership to help anyone understand how to get work done - two years after the merger and we are still scrambling around trying to figure out how to do our own jobs. Everyone is miserable and either talking about it, or putting on a brave face hoping they can avoid being laid off that way. All the while, senior leadership tells us to "get excited" about every little thing they tease (without actual specifics so we can do our jobs against said things). We complete surveys on our experience, but instead of senior leaders making changes to improve anything, they tell us "look at how much we improved!" which heightens the disconnect from the actual experience of employees. I truly believe 3/4 of the staff would be leaving right now if the job market was not so challenging at the moment. Internal growth prospects are also non-existent; a$$-kissers are the ones who get any kind of advancement, but 99% of people can forget about any hopes of that happening, even strong performers. Chaos is rampant, and most leaders don't want to take accountability for anything, leaving middle-managers to run the show themselves with zero recognition (and instead being slapped with higher revenue goals, more responsibilities, and no training or resources for achieving either).