Where the managers come to stay relevant while ignoring the needs of the engineers - Project Leader Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Jul 20, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

From a management and leadership perspective, you can move laterally and upwards through the company at a fast pace.

Cons

Overabundance of processes and restrictions which suffocates the engineer into zombie-like servitude. This may work for a government contracting company where the slightest change has major implications, but for the software organizational units, this is anathema. Fosters an environment of every man for himself as top-tier engineers must compete against one another after wave after wave of layoffs. You may feel like the cream of the crop, but eventually even the cream gets lopped off. Systematic and planned outsourcing of all key technical positions. A software engineer here is like a lego block. Take one out, put one in. An engineer from Stanford or Berkeley is considered no more important than an anonymous offshore engineer.

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5.0
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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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