This WAS a great place to work. - LAN Technician Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Jun 16, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

At one point in time I would have said that upward mobility & job security were the best reasons to work at NMR. Now there is no good reason. Better & more fulfilling work can be found elsewhere.

Cons

Uncertainty is the biggest downside. Layoffs are being implemented in a swift & even sometimes arbitrary manner. Morale is at an all-time low all over Nielsen. It has become a large scale cash-grab. More than half of the work from this location is being offshored over the next year or two. Employees are being sent to India to train their replacements with no real incentive...their incentive is "a free trip to india". A good deal of jobs have already been "made redundant" aka let go. Many employees that have been given notice as to when their employment would end are now being retained well past their initial severance dates with no hope of any raise & they will lose any severance package if they quit.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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