Nielsen reviews

Company is too big to effectively and efficiently create quality products. Organized chaos that forces the employees to work their fingers to the bone in an attempt to meet deadlines. What makes this worse is the outsourcing of IT projects to a 3rd tier Indian company. Company claims to be diverse but they weigh heavily on the minority side, often laying off people with years of experience while hiring right out of college "experts". Leadership has a "steady as she goes" mentality that results in broken technology, lingering IT projects and budget overruns. Infrastructure projects that are managed by IT outsourced Indian labor are ineffective and awkward. TCS is in over their head and their inability to manage projects are examples of that, however, no manager raises concern. Benefits are horrible. Very expensive, complicated and poor coverage. The benefits costs are calculated on how much money you make. Lower payed employees pay less for health coverage. Coverage is mediocre at best.

This is a company that is 100% reactive in nature. As technology changes, Nielsen is constantly trying to stay relevant to their markets. The diary side of the tv rating business is finally being retired but it took decades to get there. Nielsen's focus is always around saving money because they are expanding into emerging markets and to do so they have a huge upfront investment, bringing them into severe debt. In 2013, they had no growth in europe and emerging market growth was not where they projected it to be. Just know that if you're in this kind of model where every dime is spend on future investments, they will be finding ways to cut corners.