One of my biggest career mistake - Working in Nielsen Online Business - Research Executive (Quantitative) Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
Jun 22, 2021
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Pros

Nothing that I can think of

Cons

1. No Work Life balance - The employees are expected to work late nights and on weekends. This is the only metric by which your contribution is judged in the team. 2. Extreme Pressure - The workload is very heavy and the fact that the team size is also small, adds on to the pressure. 3. HR team exists only for namesake - The HR team takes 0 interest in the well being of the employees. They will definitely send you mails on yoga, healthy diet etc. but they don't care about the on ground reality within the organization. In nutshell - they don't practice what they preach. 4. Get Peanuts in your pockets - If a person compares the amount of work he/she does here as compared to what he/ she gets in the name of compensation, then the person will definitely find himself/ herself in tears. And don't even think of getting any payment for the overtime on weekdays/ weekends. 5. High Employee Attrition - Due to the above reasons the employees don't stick here for a longer time. But the sad part is that the Senior Management is least bothered about the on-ground issues.

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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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