Euromonitor reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(843 total reviews)

Tim Kitchin

67% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Euromonitor has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 843 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Euromonitor employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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843 reviews
1.0
Jun 22, 2022

A Poor Company in Every Aspect

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The paychecks generally arrive on time.

Cons

Low pay. You’ll be expected to handle major accounts while doing customer service, prospecting, contracting/legal, and administrative work. In a mature sales organization these would be separate roles, since it’s impossible to be great at all of them. Compensation is in line with a call center, not a sales role. There is no work life balance. I was commonly asked to work early mornings or into the evenings. The majority of my PTO days involved ‘hopping on for a quick call’ or ‘just sending a few quick emails.’ I was yelled at for taking sick days. The management is just bad all around. Micromanagement, unnecessary metrics, and truly just a lack of business/sales acumen. If you are even halfway decent at sales you won’t learn much here. I can truly say there was nothing positive about my experience at Euromonitor. It was stressful, the pay was low, and there were no development opportunities. The career path was non-existent. At Euromonitor you are nothing but an ATM for the owners of the company. They quite literally host annual meetings to talk about how rich they are - the last one I attended was so great that they made jokes about the tornado that struck Kentucky around that time (as they’re in the UK it seems like they enjoy making fun of the US whenever possible). With all honesty I regret ever taking the job. It became clear what kind of company it was quickly, but with their archaic commission structure I had to wait until the end of my second year to actually get paid. To top it all off, after achieving over 200% of my quota, my boss refused to provide a recommendation for my next job. Avoid this company unless you have some odd desire to be underpaid and treated poorly. There are much better sales jobs in Chicago that provide development opportunities for substantially higher pay.

1.0
Jun 16, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent amount of colleagues with international experience who are helpful and collaborative. Potentially decent research information to explore.

Cons

Syndicated and custom research are generic, internally overhyped, disconnected with actual business needs, extraordinarily overpriced frequently by 50% or twice as costly as any competitor, inexplicably slow to react to secure business despite requesting opportunities, out of touch with actual business needs, consistently unable to understand structures of business entities, inherited inability to be flexible to clients' needs despite attempting to gouge or create non-existent budgets, presumptuous inexperienced (outside of Euromonitor) management. Manipulative environment that "rewards" people, but will lay off based on company-manufactured concocted reasons. Will generate nonsensical, client relationship-damaging metrics out of sync with selling, relationship management, and business development that have led clients to view the company as mosquito central call center. Places nearly all employees, except family favorites, on performance plans, explicit or implicit, leaving employees to be in a manipulative, abusive environment. They say they value work-life balance and family, but lay off pregnant people. Don't have a family or be in a relationship here. Compensation and benefits aren't worth the frustration or the damage. Basically, the equivalent of an incompetent company masquerading as a fancy Hollywood office environment with nothing substantial behind it. Find another company.

1.0
Dec 19, 2018

Analyst

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Euromonitor is a very popular name in the market research world especially if you are in the field of consumer goods. They have amazing content, business relevant data points, user-friendly portal. Unfortunately, this company is just another example of all the glitters is the not gold. Pros 1. If you are considering a career in research, Euromonitor can be a very good learning ground for you. 2. A good brand name to have on your CV. 3. The exposure you get will help you gain expertise early in your career. 4. Very interesting work. 5. Good support from the HR and administration. They are actually the most professional of the lot. 6. Their offices are usually in the state of the art buildings which have most of the facilities close by.

Cons

1. Most managers like playing favorites. If you are someone who can always be at the beck and call of your manager even at your own inconvenience, you have better chances at growing. If you’re a flatterer, this is the place for you! 2. People (this includes most managers and most peers) judge too soon. If you were new to this job and took some time to learn, they’ve already written you off. The mistakes you made in the early months at your job will always be amplified and your victories (especially good feedback from the client) will be completely ignored. 3. Taking sick leaves is a sin. Taking more than 7 sick leaves is looked down upon. This not only difficult if you’re going through a medical crisis but also worse if you have to take care of people in your family. 4. Very poor pay and negligible bonus. Managers will usually give you most obnoxious reasons for not giving a hike. “Remember that mistake you made a year back?” 5. The work hours are crazy. If you put your foot down, you might be pulling off long hours at least 3 days a week. 6. They don’t have a good training system in place which is too bad, because they expect you to be a thorough professional from day 1. 7. Previous experience of people is almost discounted. People are not treated respectfully especially the senior ones. 8. Management likes to treat only those people well who try very hard to always stay visible. If you’re someone who likes to lay low, chances are you’ll be ignored. Out of sight, out of mind. 9. Some seniors managers are passive aggressive, you’ll never know when you’ve ticked them off and they might not even give you a chance to correct your mistake. 10. High attrition in the past years. Apart from the old folks, the most newbies don’t think it’s worth sticking it out here. Many people have quit within their first 2 years.

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