Management is bad - Data Scientist Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
Nov 19, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great WLB. People are nice.

Cons

Pay is way below the market so it’s impossible to keep good talents with the company . I’ve seen SO many top performers left within past 6 months. They hire people outside with a okay price, which sometimes can be 20-60% higher than the salary they pay for the current employees - very demotivating. Since the pay is still below the market price, new hires are usually mediocre . Annual refresher is a joke. A LOT OF POLITICS. Annual review is not always based on the performance. Low performers can get better ratings than top performers. Promotion is very slow. Leaders refuse to learn the latest ML techniques/design - code style and code quality are not consistent. It might be a fine place for new graduates but definitely not for a senior person.

Explore other reviews about Nielsen

5.0
Apr 14, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Was a great job with great benefits

Cons

No cons at all honestly

1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

5
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All