Work from home not worth it - Membership Representative Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Aug 19, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company car, credit card, laptop, and phone. Hotels, food, and gas covered while traveling. Base pay is ok, and potential bonuses are attractive but unrealistic.

Cons

Always traveling, so not a true work from home job. You just don’t report to an office but have constant virtual team meetings. Constant unrealistic goals of singing homes in some of the most rural areas no matter the weather. Most of the time you drive for hours just to find out people are either not home or not interested in what you are selling. Even if we aren’t really selling anything. We are offering “free” money to just watch tv as they normally do, but because it cost nothing to participate most people think it’s a scam. The truth is there are a lot of restrictions to actually finding a compatible home willing to partake in a Nielsen ratings tv survey. Initial recruitment is too long of a process where you visit the same house over and over again. Most people could care less about a few hundred bucks over a 2 year period. Plus once they sign up the equipment needed to be installed is a hassle and you don’t get paid if field tech is unable to do the install. Pay is a joke for the time involved!

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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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