Pros
Many leadership programs are in place to grow talent like the Emerging Leaders program and leadership conferences. Some of the leaders were wonderful like Dave Calhoun and Mitch Barns- visionaries that really want to bring Nielsen into the next century. Very bright engineers and technology experts.
Cons
This is a company that is 100% reactive in nature. As technology changes, Nielsen is constantly trying to stay relevant to their markets. The diary side of the tv rating business is finally being retired but it took decades to get there. Nielsen's focus is always around saving money because they are expanding into emerging markets and to do so they have a huge upfront investment, bringing them into severe debt. In 2013, they had no growth in europe and emerging market growth was not where they projected it to be. Just know that if you're in this kind of model where every dime is spend on future investments, they will be finding ways to cut corners.