Decent place, ok growth - Research Associate Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Oct 23, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Because it is a widely recognized company with a huge marketshare. You can jump from here to other jobs in the industry or elsewhere. Also decent benefits and salary - although not exceptionally so.

Cons

It is hard to advance - senior management is not always competent or very clear about decision or directions they are leading the company in. People seem to get promoted not necessary as the right person for the job but rather because of nepotism or other reasons. This is and will continue to be discouraging to many of the employees in including myself.

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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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