A decent place to be - Analyst Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Dec 15, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

WOrking for the Nielsen Company was a mixed experience. While I think the company is certainly headed in the right direction and Dave Calhoun knows what he is doing "One Nielsen" I was not that excited about the actual work I was doing and thus was not that excited about being at the company. However, the company does a great job of keeping all of the employees in the loop about decisions that are made, trends within the company, and future expectations. The company also trys to keep employees happy with small perks (casual dress, free lunch, dinner after 7).

Cons

I don't know if there are any significant downsides to the company, some areas that are not great include the hours which tended to be extremely long. I also am not certain that opportunities outside of the company if you decide to leave are that great because almost everything you learn is very proprietary and thus not very transferrable.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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