Strong regional cooperation but lack proper checks and balances; current ones are outdated - Account Management Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Dec 11, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Proprietary products and regional cooperation across industry practice groups promote higher learning curve. Global brand makes it highly recognizable across countries Innovative techniques that address evolving client needs

Cons

Long hours at work since Company tends to accept client projects without investing in the necessary resources or structures that would enable teams to deliver efficiently. Working with long-standing senior management people who are not open to stretching existing boundaries to challenge outdated practices and processes Lack of corrective action to address quality issues in operational outputs. Insignificant check and balance procedures Management overhauls during the last 10 years has caused too many senior management people jumping ship and new faces suddenly appearing in newsbytes -- it's a bit hard to track who's doing what now these days given all these exits and entrances

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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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