Look out for yourself - Sr. Director Circana Employee Review

1.0
Mar 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Remote/flexible work, and there are pockets of strong mid-level leaders who are rockstars trying to make up for what we lack from senior leaders

Cons

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).

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Completely remote work. That's about the only pro.

Cons

Let's start with the IT department. A ticket goes in and it's easily ignored for 24 hours. And when you do get a response from IT it will take days, weeks for a computer issue to get resolved. All while your boss and clients are breathing down your neck to meet a deadline but you can't because IT won't fix your computer problems. How the IT department at Circana hasn't completely gotten fired and replaced is beyond me. We hear constantly from senior leadership - speed! Efficiency! - yet can't do that when computers don't work. The work itself: Mind numbingly boring. Circana tries desperately to be consultative and provide insights but they are so far from doing so. Impossible to make any kind of meaningful changes at the company b/c the culture is so slow and plodding. Constant org changes by a bunch of higher-ups who don't know what they are doing. Justify the changes with slogans and phrases but has zero understanding of how these org changes actually will work. Oh -- good luck Circana keeping employees when you don't provide even the basic cost of living increases.

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