Nielsen reviews

At Nielsen, you aren't a person. You're just a number - your salary+bonus. The GE/Jack Welch management idea of "constantly fire X% of the employees to reduce salary costs. Meaning, they don't fire the poor performers as much as they fire longer term employees (who aren't management's favorites) because they're making too much money. So there's not a huge incentive in a place that doesn't reward high performers - when the raises start, the clock starts ticking. There is NO ONBOARDING with the company so hope someone's willing to explain this bizarre corporate model. Everyone spends all day in Google Hangouts and not actually talking to each other. Nielsen's business model is dying because it can't make sense of 21st century technology. They're losing relevance and they know it. All the best seniors are getting out, we've lost some great leadership in the last few years. CISO is CIO's workplace son and promoted past his ability to manage, lead, etc. Not his fault but prime example of corporate favoritism leads to progress for the few (and the young and inexperienced.) Great employees leave before getting laid off which is a huge waste of talent.

(I left prior to 2015 as that year is the earliest year available in the Glassdoor dropdown) THE biggest con was TCS (Tata) - the company outsourced / offshores many of its back office functions and I was part of the retained organization that was responsible for its respective areas but which was dependent on offshore TCS employees for support. It was a frustrating disaster - TCS over promised and under delivered. Nielsen May love it due to cost savings but it was not a place that I wanted to be at for the intermediate or long term. Also, at the time, annual merit increases were mediocre at best even for employees with near perfect evaluations and performance.