TERRIBLE work life balance - Membership Representative Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Jan 13, 2025
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Pros

Company provides a car that you can also use for personal purposes. Pay and goals are decent for the first six months. You have some flexibility in setting your schedule, though late nights and weekends are mandatory. You get 14 vacation days, as long as they don’t fall during blackout periods—though don’t count on using them around Christmas or Thanksgiving.

Cons

This role is extremely demanding, with expectations that employees work from sunrise until 8 PM, including weekends and holidays. Despite having vacation days, they are often blacked out during certain periods, and unused days cannot be carried over. Work-life balance is virtually nonexistent. High turnover is a notable issue, with most employees leaving within a year. The job requires collaboration with Field Representatives, but if they do not complete their portion of the process, it negatively impacts your performance—this happens frequently, and support from management is lacking. While bonuses over $1,000 are possible, they require nonstop effort and sacrifices that make the role unsustainable for most employees. Unrealistic expectations and a lack of organizational support create a challenging environment that many find difficult to navigate.

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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
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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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