GfK Employee Reviews
Out of 70 GfK employee reviews, 59% were positive. The remaining 41% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping GfK improve their work culture.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Lead and manage team well
Caring, work as team, motivated
patient when error are made
They trust local team to execute strategy. Not too many expats
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Better communication about their strategy
People hiting , empowering business leader and do incremental change instead if sudden death
Being transparent about what’s really going on and better compensation for employe
People skills need vast improvement
Transparency. We had a JV with our main competitor and information was poor. People are nervous of lay offs and those not worried are worried we will lose high talent and bring more work onto them and make the company weaker for it. We are owned by KKR now and everyone knows what Private Equity do!
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Everything about it was good
health care no co pay
Many bonuses for those who perform
Life insurance. But that is pretty much it.
The bonus is ok, medical and traffic bonuses
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Compensation and insurance benefits are much lower than the market going rate. Especially in Indonesia.
Equal work should be paid equally. But at GfK it's paid by "nose".
100% of salary or more for compensation. Company forced us to sign a document that for 40% of salary we won't leave the company for six months.
a market competitive salary will be good for a start!
Payment should be a lot more tied to the volume of work. Same payment for weeks of news/magazines and YouTube while you are under constant load.
What are some of the best things about your team?
nice people, i like them very much
Good teamwork and helpful, everyone is friendly
they are approachable and not hesitant to share their ideas
They are great professionals and team players.
flexible times to interact with them
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Long time employess working in Germany should take german language courses compulsory.
Need to know what is going on iutside gfk
The team is nice. Mostly seniors, now that all the new colleagues are out
GfK needs to rethink and overhaul how they manage remote teams. Managers need to create structure and opportunities for coworkers to work together. Sending out "memes" about conference calls does not create a team environment.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Teamwork, collaboration, friendly, willing to help each other
Great people and friendly, eager to help.
comfortable dealing with superiors and coworkers
Collaboration between team members and with other teams
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Don't only look at profit short term. But make the place to work better.
New leadership is needed now
The company does not care about its employees. It only cares about making money at the expense of its employees and customers.
What did you like most about the interview process?
Being explained what is expected of me
Interviewer explain clearly what need to be done in the role and what expectation from her
The HR lady who tried to make fhe process easier
Honest interview and interesting perspectives.
easy questions to proceed well
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
client satisfaction and be a trusted partner
My colleagues are helpful and friendly
Interesting procjects and great people.
challenge of producing better and faster each day
Bsuiness stability and good pay
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Operations wise , no accuracy nor honesty. Data is cooked in many countries.
Morphing into a new brand is not working
We need new owners. KKR sees as a property to flip and make a buck on. They don’t give two bits how we work so long as it’s cheap to keep costs down and make ya more attractive to buy
What do you like best about your company?
We can work at home a day a week, unofficially as it is not a written policy and a manager could revoke anytime for no reason.
Great team and very supportive culture
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Stability. We have been flipped around owners like a hamburger patty on a grill. Having a ln owner willing to invest in growth as appears to starve us to show a better bottom line.
Employees should be compensated at market rates