Run Away; Don't let the door kick you on the way out - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Nov 8, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

brand recognition in specific industries, global, a few good people

Cons

Senior-most management are out of touch with the day to day; seems to be a lot of infighting at the top and unclear what they do but obviously highly paid people in the upper echelon. Benefits have degraded to be a joke and almost a punishment, people who are stars seem to all flame out after being worked hard and then leave voluntarily and as often involuntarily. New ad campaign seems like a waste of money that could go to fix stuff.

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Cons

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Pros

Absolutley nothing. Which is a tragedy, because Nielsen was once an absolutely great place to work. I wanted to retire here. The culture used to be great, and I really loved being a part of this place. I loved my team, my management, and the people. Then along came the current CEO who is the classic example of a person who knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing. He took over and ran the company full speed ahead in to the iceberg. And to try and save the sinking ship, he laid off literally thousands of highly experienced, highly trained, and highly engaged people to replace them with fresh overseas hires who know nothing about the company and expect them to be trained from the ground up to replace literally centuries of collective expererience and client relations. It's a disaster. This CEO shouldn't be trusted to run a lemonade stand.

Cons

Everything. Pay, job security, culture, management. Nothing is good here anymore. Don't take a job here unless you are truly desperate. And even then, it should only be as a stop-gap until you can find something else.

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