Nielsen reviews

3.0

39% would recommend to a friend

(8,202 total reviews)

Karthik Rao

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32% positive business outlook

Nielsen has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,202 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Nielsen employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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8K reviews
3.0
Sep 17, 2018

Used to be a nice place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers are great. Work was mostly fulfilling.

Cons

After being taken over by former GE people, it's been several years of outsourcing, layoffs, shrinking raises, less frequent reviews, and a lot of layoffs.

3.0
Aug 21, 2018

Client Manager

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People have been great, some flexibility to work from home depending on the client and/or group you work with. Interesting work Unlimited PTO (but you still need to get your work done so...)

Cons

Low salaries, client manager level has not been paid merit increases two years in a row now, very difficult to get promoted unless you're an analyst or ACM. Assume that at manager level, you'll sit for a very long time. Higher levels at risk for layoffs - company currently in rough waters financially and cleaning house at the top (or the CEO and CFO are fleeing the sinking ship...either way it's not good). Training is limited and mainly available if you're in a major hub, plan on initiation by fire if you're not located in Chicago, NY or Atlanta. Support for remote workers and workers farther away from hubs also limited.

2.0
Aug 9, 2018

Field Rep

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of over time available. Boss was fairly empathetic.

Cons

"Free" car isn't free and you have no option to but to use it. "Build your own schedule" means that you're available whenever your clients are. Expect to rarely see your family. "Work from home office" means that you're bringing nasty old equipment into your home office. Expect funky old smells, roaches, and cat pee smell from equipment that's been stewing behind people's tv's for 2 years. Training in Oldsmar Florida is pass/ fail. They whisked a trainee out during training like he was a corpse, it was so uncomfortable and cut throat. They had him dumped at the airport within 2 hours. Expect to lift things that are too heavy, to have to pay off households to retain them, and to see illicit things in people's homes that you're supposed to ignore. Culture of suffering.

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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. We are disappointed to hear that you didn't have a better experience at Nielsen. We are continuously assessing our performance and recognize there are areas we can improve upon.
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