Company is headed in wrong direction - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Oct 27, 2009
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Skills developed at Nielsen are highly marketable in the CPG industry. Managers tend to allow flexible work schedules. Good 401k match (50% up to 6% of pay).

Cons

Current senior management - made up of former GE execs - have been slashing costs with minimal consideration of the impact the cost cutting moves will have on the long term health of the business. Although work schedules may be flexible, work hours tend to be long. Training programs are weak and constantly re-engineered.

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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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