Good Place to work Overall - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

4.0
Dec 14, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Intense Learning experience working with the biggest players in the FMCG market - Large company with a lot of opportunities to move internally worldwide - Though leadership when it comes to research and data analysis methodologies - Very good exit opportunities

Cons

- Big and bureaucratic - Processes divided into countless small departments making the work look some times like on an assembly line and can be repetitive and boring. - Unpredictable and fluctuating workload, with weeks of 14 hours per day followed by weeks of very slow work - Very high erosion rate due to low salaries and weak culture

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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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