Good fit for recent grads, but tread carefully - Senior Manager Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Nov 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

(within client services) - lots of energetic young people - welcoming and supportive atmosphere within your team - plenty of opportunity to work remotely - solid values of integrity, simplicity, and client service - decent opportunity for vertical advancement if you're willing to work, and have a good mentor behind you - lots of opportunity to learn about marketing and CPG more generally

Cons

- tight staffing, made worse by 2018 layoffs - long and unpredictable hours - outdated, and often unreliable tools, which is embarrassing for a company that thinks of itself as technologically savvy. - large corporate structure which is very silo'd and at times dysfunctional - Lately, instability within the US organization due-to poor business performance

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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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