Nielsen reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(8,194 total reviews)

David Kenny

42% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Nielsen has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,194 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
1.0
Mar 1, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The opportunity to be overworked with an interesting client :)

Cons

Overworked, underpaid, and tone-deaf leadership has absolutely NO care in the world for the daily lives of its employees. Not only has the company announced they will be outsourcing virtually all positions to other countries (except for a few lucky ones), but they have no clarity (they are willing to share)/ timeline for what that will mean for current employees week after week. Instead, they painfully drag everyone into yet another week of torture filled with meetings that provide (can you guess)...... no answers. They have created a culture of anxiety and low morale among those who unfortunately still work there while never wavering in stressing the importance of..... meeting clients' EVERY need and maintaining the quality of output they know and love. Constantly overworked employees who deservingly want to excel in their careers have to argue with 'those above' for years about why they deserve a promotion while operating at levels higher than expected. The company has no forward-looking vision and is losing the respect it once had in the market research world by the second. Those seeking new employment, STEER CLEAR!

2.0
Feb 11, 2024

Stress!!!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This used to be an amazing place to work. Great hours, benefits and culture. The ability to actually advance in your career. It was like a family.

Cons

Since Elliott bought them out it's been nothing but a nightmare. Continual layoffs, moving all our jobs offshore to India or Mexico... Take on more responsibility, work your butt off and oh by the way, train your replacements so you can be laid off at an undetermined time in the future and go out with a bang! What?! It's sad how they are treating us.

3.0
Jun 4, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Initially, seemed like good room for potential growth and support - Pay scale seems comfortable or much higher for most people, annual increases were good - Solid potential to learn at scale, with real impact - Several interesting use cases that required deeper upskilling - Some good leaders

Cons

- Good, technical leaders getting replaced with "yes"-people - Growth only actually happens if helping with the "right" optics - Profit and "excellence" (aka burnout) seems to be the only way to climb - People department is definitely more of a check box and less of a support system; good people work there but aren't enabled very well at all, much less prioritized - Benefits aren't great, only one benefit is actually good and it's not even universal at the company - Decided US workforce is too expensive, offshoring is clearly the answer?? Even considering offshore positions, pay scale is suddenly pennies

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