Worried about ratings not about the people who make them possible. - IT Manager Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
Sep 20, 2014
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Pros

It's funny that Glassdoor makes you enter PROS even if their aren't any!

Cons

Company is too big to effectively and efficiently create quality products. Organized chaos that forces the employees to work their fingers to the bone in an attempt to meet deadlines. What makes this worse is the outsourcing of IT projects to a 3rd tier Indian company. Company claims to be diverse but they weigh heavily on the minority side, often laying off people with years of experience while hiring right out of college "experts". Leadership has a "steady as she goes" mentality that results in broken technology, lingering IT projects and budget overruns. Infrastructure projects that are managed by IT outsourced Indian labor are ineffective and awkward. TCS is in over their head and their inability to manage projects are examples of that, however, no manager raises concern. Benefits are horrible. Very expensive, complicated and poor coverage. The benefits costs are calculated on how much money you make. Lower payed employees pay less for health coverage. Coverage is mediocre at best.

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Pros

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Cons

No cons at all honestly

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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