Full speed ahead...in the wrong direction - Analyst Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Feb 7, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Rather than plucking people from other companies, Nielsen has a strategy of filling positions from within which gives a great deal of career and growth potential. On the whole, the company is quite flexible - if you decide your skill set isn't suited for the area you are in, you can request to be transferred to a different group, different business unit, etc. The company is also quite flexible if you need to work from home or leave early on a regular basis.

Cons

Having recently been purchased by a private company Nielsen has transitioned from a "people first" attitude to a "profit first". Not a bad attitude when running a business, but it is nearly a 180 from the original culture of the company. The result is that there are many people in leadership roles who aren't consistent with the current message creating conflicting directives at all levels within the company. Low morale tends to quickly follow suit as employees cannot keep up with the ever changing landscape.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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