Nielsen reviews

There's a lot here to unpack. The key one is salaries. Right now, it is impossible to break the 100K salary mark unless you have spent atleast 7-9 years within the company. This is a joke considering the number of firms that are able to hire out of college at that salary level. Overall salary level have been the same for the last 15 years in nominal terms not accounting for inflation. As a result, it is not uncommon to see the brightest and best leave within the first 2 years. Attrition at senior levels to more product oriented companies with actual growth plans (instead of where a -5% decline YoY is seen as something to cheer) is also very apparent, and anecdotally I've heard of people 2xing their salary out the gate with such jumps at a bare minimum - an indication of the scale of the problem. As a result, the only people who are left are by definition the ones who couldn't go anywhere else, or the ones who value the intangibles of the company (good work/life balance, strong sense of community) which also comes with caveats; work life balance has eroded significantly (think 40 hours weeks to 55 hour weeks over the past 5 years), and the community has - intentionally or not - become racially and gender insular, both from a hiring and a growth track perspective. The company also continues to stumble in actually meeting customer needs, allowing upstart startups (some of which were founded by ex-employees) to come in and capture significant share and growth. The business unit I was in has not seen any positive year over year growth in the past decade.

The starting pay is good. But then you’ll be told that there is no bonus pay and the increment for lower level bands are stuck at 2-7%/ year. Even if you change band level, you only get about 10-20%, but you have 3-5 times the work load. So many people quit from this place and hands over tasks to the next unlucky person. People leave not because of the pay, it’s because of the dead end career path, you either work there forever or get lucky enough to settle in an actual job. The management is ridiculous here. Some are lucky with having a respectable manager, else are like me who ends up having an idiot from India who doesn’t even know excel shortcuts. All in all, it’s not that horrible of a company, but it isn’t such a blessing to work here. Trainings here suck. People don’t know what they are doing, they just learn from other people as well. They are robots with free will and the ability to screw up. If you’re looking for a dead end job. Come here. But if you’re looking for career progression, don’t. Team leaders here do all the work. They have the responsibility and the load of the managers, and they have to take up the additional work when the team gets too stupid/ scarced. Advice for you all: if u want to work here. Don’t ever accept promotion