Being a monopoly in the world has led to career stagnation in Nielsen - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Jan 7, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very interesting and challenging business to learn. The various product offerings by Nielsen are exciting. The business people are very respected and great to work with. They are all very high caliber folks and highly qualified. It was a pleasure working with them. They have a great work life balance with work from home options available.

Cons

The IT part of the company is very mediocre. This stems from the fact that this is a monopoly and has very little completion, and hence breeds mediocrity. There is very little career growth and people are mostly stuck in the position they are hired as. There is very little focus in developing people and upward movement. Salaries rarely change/increase. If you are satisfied with the status qua with no changes at all - this is the company that you should work for. Senior Management is not expected to reviewed by their direct reports. If you happen to be unhappy with your manager, you have no recompense.

Explore other reviews about Nielsen

5.0
Apr 14, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Was a great job with great benefits

Cons

No cons at all honestly

1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

5
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All