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It can be fun if you are "chosen" by the management
Research Manager (Current Employee), Toronto – July 18, 2012
Pros: fun if you are the chosed ones (some term it as "the selected")
Cons: workload is way too much
Ipsos' culture at work can be extremely buraucratic.

In general, researchers tend to be intelligent, intellectual and down-to-earth and adversive to office politics. However, the team at Ipsos is outrageously political and divided by "the chosen ones" vs the not. The chosen ones enjoy all the attention while the non-chosen ones will just look from – more... the outside in being totally ignored by the management, and it just feels miserable.

Workload is way too much with 10-20 hours of overtime a week as the norm. – less
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News – October 20, 2012

Hi, I am about to join the Toronto Team, and when I read your comment I got very concerned. Can you tell me more about the overtime load, and the chosen ones? Thanks so much!

Hanan – March 20, 2013

I want to know how long do Ipsos take for looking to find the suitable candidate to fill a position. I applied for the data analyst - montreal from 20 days ago and until now the post is advertised on their web page. I am interested for this post I believe that my study and my experience would make me a strong candidate.

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terrible upper management, low pay, high stress, long hours
Team Leader (Current Employee), Cincinnati, OH – May 30, 2013
Cons: everything
used to be a great place, last few years have been focused on quantity over quality. most departments are now placed in other countries and everyone is over worked.
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Productive and fast pace environment. Diversity in work projects. Challenging and a great learning experience.
Office Manager (Current Employee), Chicago, IL – May 10, 2013
Pros: flexible work schedules as needed, summer hours, paid holidays, sick days, and 4 weeks paid vacation, friday breakfasts, medical and commuter flex spend account, close knit family orientated colleagues.
Cons: an hour and a half commute when the trains are on schedule.
A typical day at work consists of handling all expected and unexpected needs from staff and facility. Assist where/when needed for 450 plus people. I am also responsible for the occupancy budget and handle every aspect of office/facilities responsibilities. I have moved/consolidated offices due to acquisitions and manage office buildouts as needed. – more... I learned how to handle many different personalities, including difficult people, and expanded my office management experience by dealing with companies in 90 countries. I have also had the pleasure to assist 40 plus offices in training and reduction in costs across the US and Canada. My colleagues consist of highly educated people who are from all parts of the globe. By working for a global wide company I have learned about many different countries and what is needed for international travel. The hardest part of my job is also the most enjoyable for me, and that is handling emergencies as they arise, finding ways to improve/streamline processes, reduce waste, and find more cost efficient ways to enhance the company. – less
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Silo Business Structure
Director, Market Intelligence (Former Employee), New York, NY – April 27, 2013
While Ipsos is a good organization to work for, one must be prepared to be "silo'ed" away.

The business of research is silo'ed by research type -Satisfaction Group doing only satisfaction work for example. Then further silo'ed into industry - only working with travel companies. So prepare for work to get "stale" quick.
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4th Largest Market Research Company
Director (Current Employee), Chicago, IL – February 27, 2013
A full service agency with broad methodological experience and dynamic solutions.
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The best place to learn all kind of market research techniques
International project manager (Current Employee), Santo Domingo, PR – January 25, 2013
Pros: learning a lot.
Cons: hard working. demands a lot of effort.
Ipsos is the third biggest market research company worldwide. That kind of says it all.
Its massive portfolio allows to provide its clients with the best products and services, and that guarantees that they are always satisfied.
Working at Ipsos is a very fulfilling experience.
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Monitoring all the media advertising around the country
Media Outdoor Executive (Former Employee), Unites Arabs Of Emirates - Sharjah – December 13, 2012
• Monitoring and verifying Outdoor Media to ensure the advertising are dispalyed as booked with no tampering and provided by specific data such as rate card, current advertisement on each site, site technical details, site condition and advertising on neighbouring billboards.
• Handling Office work, data entry, Geo concept digital map, qualitative and – more... quantitative and rate card for billboard, GPS data, collection data and cleaning data.
• Training outdoor controllers. – less
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Might want to do further research before joining IPSOS...
Senior Research Manager (Former Employee), Culver City,CA – December 4, 2012
Pros: office manager and team keep a great attitude, snacks, pool table.
Cons: management
By far the worst work environment experienced in my professional career. Management fosters an unhealthy competitive environment making for a weak team.
As the Toronto colleague mentions, if you are not "chosen" by management, you are ostracized and become a paper pusher.
Glad I made it out of there, but not without taking a major hit to my self worth – more... and professional growth. – less
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Very professional atmosphere
Data Entry Supervisor (Former Employee), Parsippany, NJ – October 17, 2012
Pros: yearly reviews and opportunities
Cons: marketing company so the chance of lay off is high
Comfortable working environment. Clean office. Good team to work with. Many various marketing tools within the company.
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Productive & Fun work place
@ Home Interviewer (Current Employee), Home-based – August 27, 2012
Pros: not many
Cons: not enough assignments
Hardest part of the job is being rejected by people we call to conduct different surveys.
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Can be enjoyable, but a rough work load
Senior research analyst (Current Employee), UAE – June 10, 2012
Ipsos, high in job security, however, can be a large work load and difficult to have a blanced life between work and hoe
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Work with very intelligent individuals who love research
Human Resources Associate (Current Employee), Parsippany, NJ – March 20, 2012
Pros: friendly employee, relaxed atmosphere
Cons: worklife balance
Ipsos is a great market research company for a researcher at heart. The employees are creative and passionate about what they do. Ipsos's number one priority is to provide clients excellent services and tools, to help them build better a business for tomorrow and we do so very well. The atmosphere is very relaxed and employees are friendly.
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empresa agradavel para trabalhar
Codificadora Bilingue (Current Employee), São Paulo, SP – May 7, 2013
Pros: o entorno
Cons: estou como free lanzer
cada dia aprendo a analisar melhor as pesquisas e evoluir na minha produção. Os colegas de trabalho são otimos, O entorno em geral e otimo.
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Multinacional no ramo de pesquisa que gostei muito de trabalhar
Digitador (Former Employee), São Paulo, SP – April 18, 2013
Pros: o salario era muito bom
Cons: eramos terceirizados, nem todos. poucos eram clt
Entravamos a hora que queriamos e não tinhamos horário certo para sair. Eu trabalhava com digitação de pesquisas, consistência dos questionários. Respondia ao supervisor sobre prazos e fechamentos de projetos. Todos os dias faziamos horas extras, se o projeto ainda não estivesse finalizado tinhamos que trabalhar até de madrugada até conclui-lo e ele – more... ser entregue ao cliente. As vezes era corrido, mas na maioria das vezes era tranquilo. Adquiri mais experiência no ramo da pesquisa trabalhando diretamente numa empresa que faziam todos os processos de um projeto porque antes eu era acostumada a trabalhar só com os fornecedores. O meu gerente e a minha supervisora eram tranquilos, gostavam e confiavam no meu trabalho sempre me dando credibilidade e novos desafios. Quando entrei na empresa era no período da madrugada e pelo meu desempenho quando abriu vaga para o período da manhã fui transferida. A Ipsos é uma empresa com mais 300 funcionários trabalhando para melhor qualidade, fechamento, muito cuidado e ótima prestação de serviço aos clientes então todos tentavam fazer seu melhor trabalho, unidos, um ajudando o outro para não sairmos fora do prazo e concluir o trabalho com credibilidade e perfeição para que assim o nome Ipsos cresça mais e mais sempre. A parte mais difícil era ficar trabalhando até mais tarde, as vezes e a mais agradável era que eu amava aquela empresa, amava o que eu fazia, trabalhava com amor, corpo e alma. E nada era sacrifício, era prazeroso. – less
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Empresa dinâmica
Supervisora (Former Employee), São Paulo, SP – March 24, 2013
Elaboração de projetos de pesquisa de mercado, consultoria mercadológica, com carga horária full time, equipe e gerência treinada e proativa.
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Buenos compañeros en un ambiente de trabajo tenso
Técnico Senior Investigación de Mercados (Former Employee), Madrid – March 14, 2013
Siempre me quedaré con las cosas buenas y la buena gente.

Como en situaciones complicadas de trabajo nos hemos mantenido juntos para intentar afrontar con la mejor cara hasta los malos momentos.
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Empresa com bom volume de trabalho e responsável
Codificadora (Former Employee), São Paulo, SP – March 14, 2013
Pros: salário sempre em dia
Cons: sem perspectiva de progressão funcional
Empresa de pesquisa de mercado onde se pode aprender muito na área, exigi-se qualidade e desempenho ao nível da empresa, dificulta muito a parte operacional é burocrática, mas no geral uma empresa que paga seus funcionários em dia.
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Muito trabalho sem equipe
Lider de programação de consistência (Former Employee), São Paulo, SP – March 3, 2013
Cons: não era clt
Tive que aprender a lidar com a equipe em um setor sem estrutura, na empresa tinhamos muitos projetos e mesmo ultrapassando o horario era sacrificante cumprir o cronograma, com isso aprendi a trabalhar com pessoas e ao ,mesmo tempo com muita pressão.
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GRATO AMBIENTE LABORAL
ENCUESTADORA TELEFONICA (Former Employee), Santiago de Chile, RM – March 2, 2013
Pros: contrato fijo, indefinido
Cons: trabajo bajo presion
GRATO AMBIENTE LABORAL, COMPAÑERISMO, TRABAJO EN EQUIPO, DESCANSO PARA TOMAR CAFE, LA PARTE MAS DIFICIL QUE LOS CLIENTES ACEPTEN SER ENCUESTADOS
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Empresa que da oportunidades para os jovens que estão querendo entrar no mercado de trabalho
Telepesquisadora (Former Employee), São Paulo, SP – February 25, 2013
Pros: nenhum
Cons: não fornece vale-refeição, vale-transporte, seguro de vida
O dia é tranquilo para o telepesquisador, o objetivo é realizar a pesquisa seguindo as normas de metodologia da empresa e a metodologia do projeto, tudo na íntegra. São 6horas de trabalho, sendo 20min de lanche e duas pausas de 10 minutos.
Aprendi a ter o jogo de cintura na hora de resolver os problemas e convencer o entrevistado que a pesquisa vai – more... tomar um tempo dele, as vezes até um tempo grande. O objetivo é mostrar aquela pessoa que isso vai se refletir na frente com alguns beneficios, tudo com o objetivo de melhoria. Nesse momento é preciso também ter a liderança, mostrar ao entrevistado que quem conduz a pesquisa é você, tudo de um modo, firme e sutil, a voz, é o seu melhor aliado.
Por ser uma empresa multinacional, sediada em São Paulo, a empresa é enorme e as pessoas que não trabalham registradas, trabalham como autonomos não tem acesso a direção da empresa.
A parte mais dificil do trabalho, é muita cobrança pra pouco reconhecimento, de acordo com o projeto as vezes é necessario trabalhar de domingo a domingo, é uma obrigatoriedade, caso entrevistador diga que não tem disponibilidade essa pessoa é dispensanda. Alem de você estar trocando sempre de setor e com isso consequentemente de supervisores e colegas de trabalho o que dificulta pois o ambiente de trabalho esta sempre oscilando, nunca é o mesmo.
A parte agradavel é o salário que nesse ramo de pesquisa esta acima do mercado. – less
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