Director applicants have rated the interview process at Nielsen with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Director roles take an average of 69 days to get hired, when considering 8 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nielsen overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nielsen as a Director according to 8 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 26%
Background check: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 9%
Skills test: 9%
Personality test: 9%
Other: 4%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Nielsen in Sep 2010
Interview
Seemed like they were trying to keep me as a second (or third) option. I had a total of six meetings, one with a corporate recruiter, one taking an aptitude test, and two each with the hiring manager and the hiring manager's boss. They were inflexible on scheduling the interviews, which was extremely inconvenient for me as I was carrying a heavy workload at my then-current job and had to scramble to make all of these meetings. It took over a month to get through these interviews, which all seemed to go well.
To delay things even more, they asked me to provide references as a final step. I contacted my references and told them to expect a call from these guys. Which never came. After a week of no calls to my references, I left a message with the hiring manager. Then I got a call saying they filled the position with an internal candidate. Very disappointing.
And very unprofessional to ask for references as "a last step" with no intent to follow up on them. One thing to waste my time, but it was quite embarrassing for me after personally contacting my references and providing them the context for my request, only for them to not actually be contacted. In all, six weeks of BS from them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic questions: explain a situation in the past where you had to influence a client through a recommendation resulting from research data. What was the business result of your recommendation? Nothing really outrageous.
The most interesting part of the process was the skills test. I think 90 minutes and it was like taking the GMAT. Had to write a persuasive letter and answer maybe 20 word problems.
The process started with an initial HR discussion, followed by a hiring manager discussion round and then a technical round. After that, there was a round with the Engineering Leader, and the final stage was another hiring manager round, which included a live test exercise.
I applied online. I interviewed at Nielsen (Kuala Lumpur)
Interview
So does the company know their "hiring talent" is fishing resume to hit their quota now? Sending an initial invitation email to interview, but never response. Sending me twice for the same application too, but never response. Is this how the hiring process work in this company?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me everything about your details and we will not reply to you. and who you? in email recipient, doesn't even have my name as well. TOTAL UNPROFESSIONAL i ever see! LET"S see if they respond!
Easy interview offer same day hiring manager was very friendly now most of those jobs are outsource so nobody in operations really works in USA most of the company is outsource outside of USA and EU