WAS a great place to work... - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Jan 8, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There used to be an understanding that you could work at Nielsen for crap pay, but enjoy a 40 hour work week and not work like dogs, as elsewhere in the CPG world. There was something known as work/life balance for the typical employee.

Cons

The crap pay still exists, but the work/life balance is long gone. I know of many people who put in 60 hours a week to get the job done. For what? Many are working 1.5 positions, since management has taken to not replacing heads or stalling our clients and replacing only after 6-8 months lapse.

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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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