Very challenging work environment - Account Manager Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Oct 2, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great direct manager and co-workers. Flexible work hours. Learned a lot about consumer behavior research and ratings data in my time with Nielsen.

Cons

Upper management is disconnected from client needs and doesn't take the time to learn the ins and outs of their business. This causes them to push sales people to sell in non-customer focused ways. Very little value placed on customer relationships. Everything is about the bottom line and how the company did that week, month or quarter. Strange compensation plan for sales people. There is no commission just an arbitrary bonus at the end of the year. Not a great way to motivate a sales person! Benefits are very expensive for a company this size. Work life balance is incredibly challenging as there is not a lot of back up staff in many divisions. I haven't been able to take one vacation where I have not been checking and responding to emails or on conference calls.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 16, 2026
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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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