Worked hard, difficult to get promoted - Analyst Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Nov 2, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You get to work with incredibly smart, hardworking people and learn a lot.

Cons

This is a true corporation. Lots of layers of management, and decisions on your promotion/bonuses come from someone you rarely interact with. Pay is barely competitive, especially when it comes to how hard you will work. You’re not really in control of your career growth unless you want to move to a new client - at the mercy of the client contract and how much your manager supports you. Technology is behind and the company as a whole is experiencing major disruption. Time tracking, pointless check ins and assessments will be part of your life.

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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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