Hope the clock can be turned back - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
May 13, 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Worked in the BASES part of the business - great people, exciting industry and clients, very client and team oriented, opportunity for a lot of responsibility/autonomy early on, wonderful culture overall. Downside, all that has been changing in the last 2 years

Cons

Heavy focus on outsourcing and cost management has degraded culture and quality of work. Getting simple things done is no longer simple, excessive time spent on technical problems, correcting errors from overseas resources, explaining why you are not being more efficient in all the time spent working with overseas resources to complete simple tasks that were previously done thoroughly and professionally on-site, managing expectations around how you can do "more with less" support because of all these wonderful offshore resources. Headcount reigns supreme over true efficiency and hours spent to complete key process steps. HR is uninvolved and unhelpful. High burnout factor, probably not unlike many companies going through tight times, but especially noticeable in BASES environment where social/cultural atmosphere were always very important in keeping motivation high through peak crunches.

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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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