Under Brand New Mismanagement - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

I have loved working at Nielsen for many years, but am sad to say it seems to be in rapid decline since being taken private. The new owners seem to want to squeeze us dry - the recent firing-squad layoffs threw out a lot of babies with the bathwater and we now have a lot of legacy systems with no clear owners. Morale is low and it isn’t clear what the overall vision is. The recent decision to get rid of slack is another bungle and is going to haunt the company - with a remote, global workforce, pinching pennies on what is the de facto virtual office (especially for the tech org) is positively asinine. Google Chat is simply not ready for prime time…it doesn’t even support spaces with over 8000 users, whereas we have over 15k. The number of app integrations we use is vast. We were given literally ~3 weeks notice about the retirement of slack and there is zero content migration. I cannot emphasize enough that there is a *lot* of resentment about this. Previous (and still extant) cons: ——— Low salaries in competitive markets Overreliance on Tata Consulting for outsourced IT (abysmal overall, like your local cable company’s tier 1 customer service) Alot of lifers with a “we’ve always done it this way” mindset Innumerable archaic and inefficient processes/forms to fill out as though we were a dusty little 1990s insurance office instead of a modern, global data firm Terrible HR (and not enough of it, either!)