Dispiriting - Data Scientist Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Aug 8, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent work-life balance. Good first job to strengthen your resume.

Cons

No accountability. Hostile cross-functional environment. Managers who lack basic organizational skills. Poorly thought through projects with no clearly defined roadmaps or end goals. Band-aid solutions that get ignored until they break a critical process. Pay below industry standard.

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Nielsen Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. We're disappointed to hear that you didn't have a great experience with your manager. We believe that strong leaders are essential in helping our clients and our business grow. We will take your feedback into consideration as we continue to work on creating the best working environment for everyone.

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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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