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      3.0

      39% would recommend to a friend

      (8,206 total reviews)

      Karthik Rao

      Not enough data to show CEO approval

      32% positive business outlook

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      Nielsen has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,206 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Nielsen employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      8K reviews
      3.0
      May 19, 2009

      You'll be rememberd for making a lot of money, but not making a great company...

      Vice president
      Recommend
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      Pros

      I used to work for BASES, a division of Nielsen. BASES was unique and wonderful. Smart, kind, and motivated people.

      Cons

      The direction since the Private Equity takeover was a disaster. Mitchell Habib & Co treated everyone like their jobs were flipping burgers and have since lost talent that will take years to rebuild.

      1.0
      Apr 16, 2026

      Company has deteriorated under this CEO; avoid unless desperate

      Technical account manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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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.

      1.0
      Feb 15, 2025

      No longer a worthwhile company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The people I used to work with (before the last take over by the private equity group took over) were wonderful, smart and hard working. Post David Kenny/McKinsey /Elliott Mngmt- really since David Calhoun/Mitch Habib ran the company - everything went downhill.

      Cons

      The atmosphere now is pure stress. Not because it’s fast-paced, hard work but because they fired everyone that knew anything about the products, science, math and client needs and replaced them with people who have no background, experience or training to take over. The people that are the “leadership” are really only concerned with getting a title and high paycheck or golden parachute and know nothing about what they are doing. It is ridiculously unorganized, unoriginal and a lot of lies. Very sad because it used to be a great place to work.

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