Nielsen reviews

- Promotion/review process is a joke. Crucial to sell yourself and have firm idea of the position you want to move into--if you aren't aggressive about this, then you will get the same review year in year out, and stay at the same position. Turnover means that your manager and his/her manager may have no idea what you were working on 6 months ago. Best way to get a promotion? Make friends with the project manager who makes the most noise. - Contractor "ownership" of some areas amounts to a black hole...tell them exactly how to complete a task and maybe they will execute, but no knowledge accumulates, and good luck getting any advice or direction out of that group. - Hiring process is hit or miss, people hired into 'senior' positions who make no impact and are dead weight. - There is a good chance that if any system has been in production for more than 2 years, than there is no one left in the company who understands it. - Project timelines are sheer fiction. Be wary of putting an firm estimate out there -- your PM will shred it by staffing with weak contractors and one-off projects that are expected to just be absorbed without impacting timelines. - Weekend work is "normal". There will be no shame from management about asking for it and no apology for it.

Nielsen was sold several times while I worked for the company. I loved my job. With each buyout Nielsen changed from the company that I loved to this place that cut and cut and cut, laying more and more responsibility on the employees that remained. It hasn't stopped. The reps and office people that work for the company love their jobs but there's no job security. You're always in fear of losing your job. Cuts have happen days before Christmas.... Just an overall lack of respect for the job the employee does. It's sad. You're subject to magical thinking... "It's your fault if the HH doesn't perform. HH sick, someone's past away? That's okay...they'll still wanna let you in to fix our equipment!"