Better to avoid - Sales Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
Aug 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay, health insurance, some clever colleagues

Cons

The company was purchased by PE in 2022 as a debt. Current leadership & long term employees structured a peculiar culture…sales leaders with no experience(just staying for years after graduated from university, doing some back office roles) were unable to show business directions, failed to deliver quota and put everything on subordinates for not delivering. It was really a joke and I am happy that I left that dysfunctional org. They don’t know how to set the sales targets and no brain to fix situation. They recently adopted sales force but because of inefficiency in leadership, they created excels and everyone was requested to keep them up-to-date …I hope someday they understand the proper use of salesforce. I found similar tendency among people worked only for Nielsen for long time. After the reorganization, those long term contributors(?) were given leadership(?) titles but they were not equipped with any skillset required for sales leaders. They happily put senior title roles and congratulate each other.. same type of people flock together and they are not first class. In my region, people say that a real brilliant people never consider to join this company and I understood it true. And it was a big mistake that I chose it. So my advice to job seekers is, better to avoid if you have anything else to do.

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Pros

Was a great job with great benefits

Cons

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1.0
Apr 16, 2026
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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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