Experience here will range from fantastic to horrible - Senior Data Scientist Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Oct 30, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the long term managers are very good and work will be relaxed and your work life balance will be wonderful.

Cons

Some of the managers come from hell and micromanage you to do FAANG level work for horrible pay. Your mental health and work life balance will suffer. Nielsen does not care about diversity, regardless of how much they promote it. They will target you in a layoff if you are disabled or you stand up for yourself The outlook of the company is extremely unstable and unless you get lucky enough to be under a great manager your experience here will be miserable for a laughable salary. Even if you are under a good manager, Nielsen has reorganizations every year and will either lay you off or put you under a new manager. The process is destabilizing and they expect you to keep producing as though nothing has happened.

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5.0
Apr 14, 2026
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Pros

Was a great job with great benefits

Cons

No cons at all honestly

1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
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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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