The Nielsen Company - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Mar 26, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The employees at the company are good people to work with. The work on new products is interesting and challenging.

Cons

Currently morale is low. There is a very adversarial atmosphere at the company. Job performance is rated on a bell curve and even if you achieve your goals that management agreed to at the beginning of the year, which should be "on target", you could still be rated "below target" against your peers. Jobs are currently being outsourced to India at a ratio of roughly 70% outsourced, 30% employees. No one feels safe.

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Cons

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1.0
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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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