An organisation with huge potentials in Africa - Measurement Science Lead Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Jun 11, 2013
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Pros

Nielsen is an organisation with huge resources to dominate the Retail Measurement space for a long time. There are lots of opportunities to harness, and lots of experienced people to learn from. There are lots of best practices that can be leveraged if properly aligned.

Cons

Lots of people are still working in silos. Working across border is something that should have helped the organisation to increase productivity, instead, it has become a clog in the wheel of progress. Many of the top management (outside Africa) have limited understanding of the Africa market. Also, they do not understand the challenges faced in Africa (many doesn't even know where Africa is, and when they visit, they do not go beyond their hotel rooms and the office). In my own opinion, the market is where the work is and not visit to clients.

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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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