To good to be true, that's because it is. - Membership Representative Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Feb 6, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The perks are phenomenal... company car, phone, internet, computer etc. It look nice on your resume.

Cons

The perks will keep you at this job longer than it should. At first it seemed like an amazing place to be but the place is revolving doors especially for field employees. Your success is greatly controlled by management as they are the ones that handout leads. You will have to eat, blank and sleep Nielsen to meet minimum standards and prepare for the worse stress you will ever experience. Every week you get constant pressure to perform even if it means working Saturday and Sunday evenings every week. They will tell you that you are required to work a non-traditional schedule but what this means is you will work all day everyday and OT is rarely approved. Your job is always on the line. Definitely more pressure than typical sales positions. I would never recommend this job to a friend unless they need it as a career transition Nielsen Media does look great on your resume. This job should pay about 15K more than it does. Bonus is total BS.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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