Leadership Lost - Anonymous employee Kantar Employee Review

2.0
Mar 2, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Young lively and energetic -Opportunities to be in front of clients from early on -Generally interesting work -Unique vision -Forces you to be a self-starter -Diversity of clients and industries -Part of WPP

Cons

-Most of senior management is underqualified for their position and lean heavily on untrained, inexperienced junior staff to do the legwork. When things go wrong as a result nobody takes accountability. -The CEO is deliberately abrasive and highly manipulative, especially in convincing junior staff to join or stay. "You are a star," "You are a future leader of this company," "You have all the opportunity in the world here." Applies to everyone -Unsustainable turnover -Below-average pay -Overpromise to clients to win business then wing it because nobody has experience with that work -Gossip culture and favoritism -Hypocrisy of what is said vs done -No training or teaching for new hires -No real investment in team or concern for team's wellbeing and happiness; "like it or leave" mentality -Promise of growth and the title you reach is not recognized by the industry outside Vermeer's walls -The list goes on...

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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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