"It's important that we align this process with global" - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Oct 31, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

* Flexible hours * Lots of opportunity for CV building by taking on additional work * If you have the time for it there are many opportunities for community building and charity work, there are also many vocational learning tools

Cons

* Teams are regularly understaffed for unacceptably long periods of time. * Non-functionally top heavy. Every one's a regional director who's too busy to get involved in the nitty gritty. There are a couple people who actually do things and everything else is offshore. * Global makes local realities overly difficult, irresolvable and convoluted. A constant battle between local commitments and global. * Expected to work well out of office hours to interface with East Coast USA on a regular basis with no overtime. * If you don't sell anything, and you don't move to Florida, your advancement opportunities and recognition are limited.

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Cons

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1.0
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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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