Ugh. You couldn't pay me enough to want to work here. - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
Mar 27, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Company promotes collaboration in the workplace. Trying to emulate the environment of an agile start up with over 40,000 employees worldwide is admirable. Very good at making things seem appealing. Oh, and there's an internet bar in the lunchroom so you can have meetings when you chow down that bologna sandwich.

Cons

Horrible work/life balance. Decisions focused solely on bottom line with little regard to customer, no communication from management, nepotism, complete lack of quality management.

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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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