Miserable Place - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Jul 9, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are great for FT employees. Call Center Leader works hard to make it a better place. There are some great people here who are genuine and real and caring.

Cons

Expect to have no life outside the company. 24/7/365 is expected. Management is a popularity contest, and if they don't like you then you're out no matter what. Goals are not clearly communicated until you are being placed on disciplinary action for not meeting them. A lot of brown nosing in leadership, and very unrealistic expectations. If you are not liked, every move you make will be wrong. Don't get sick because no one will care. Marathon meetings where little to nothing is accomplished take place very single week. There is a lot of meeting to meet. Also management by committee. Inspect what you expect is just another way of saying "micromanage" which is absolutely absurd. This place is chaotic at best. People whine about the most ridiculous things rather than taking responsibility for their actions--not talking about Gen X or Y here, I'm referring to Baby Boomers and up. If you have no friends or family and want to be a workaholic in the most chaotic place on earth, this is the place for you.

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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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