Nielsen reviews

Leadership and company culture in Australia is very different to USA. Surprisngly low familiarity with analytics, data and statistics for non-research functions and lack of investment to improve. Compensation tragically poor unless you come in at Director level or above. Expected to be on late night and early morning calls with USA for no additional pay. Extremely cliquey and political, managers are not interested or trained in people management. It's drilled in to you that the only way you can advance is to get recognition by taking on numerous extra projects and secondments on top of your existing workload. Most of the time this results in you being permanentely responsible for these projects, your manager will shine but you won't get that promotion you were promised. Lots of informal and passive-aggressive 'managing out' to force you to quit rather than following proper HR processes: disproportionately high workloads, dicreetly limiting your resources ('"get creative" or "do the best with what you have" because your managers "hands are tied.") Recognition and career progression only applies to commercial and sales teams. HR usually comes up with a reason not to provide the benefits listed on paper.

- Nielsen is wildly underprepared for the forthcoming industry changes despite the picture everyone tries to paint internally. That coupled with constantly methodology updates is going to make the future of several flagship digital products murky - Office politics take up more time than your actual job. You will spend time fighting uphill battles you will never win - I have been trying unsuccessfully to get promoted for almost two years despite many empty promises and I've never had a proper review while at Nielsen. Don't seem to care much about employees' professional growth. - Generally a slow moving, lackadasical culture which is incredibly demotivating for sellers. Constantly fighting with support and product teams for client engagement and support to no avail. - I've gotten one 3% raise in the almost two years I worked at Nielsen