The Nielsen Company - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
Oct 9, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Monopoly player - exerts control or influence over the major media markets in the the US and in other parts of the world. Likewise, as a monopoly in markets for retail data and consumer panel data.

Cons

ex-GE hacks are the only ones listened to. They sound great, but deliver very little. It doesn't take too much skill to fire people or to regurgitate GE mantra. "70-20-10" for example, is very easily manipulated. Seems as if, and only if, you can swallow and repeat the GE-speak will you survive. The problems will only become apparent when the IPO finally comes and the new owners get to see the damage done by current management, but it will be too late.

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Cons

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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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