The Nielsen Company Reviews

Pros

It's good when you work with all of information. You will know all the industries well.

Cons

People are workaholic. You probably have to work until late night sometimes. High pressure and time constraint.

Advice to Senior Management

I have no idea. Sorry

Pros

Working from home and provides a new car and laptop.

Cons

must meet monthly quotas of recruitments

Advice to Senior Management

Please make sure supervisors are professional and well trained before permoting them.

Pros

Resume Builder, laid back atmosphere, casual entire

Cons

Management picks favorites, very secretive, easy job but horrible hour with no compensation, No communication with management and their employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote employees who posses the required skills for the position, Communicate more with the employees when addressing concerns. NEEDS COMMUNICATION.

Pros

The size of the company allows for moving around
Always a new challenge
People are good and competent at what they do

Cons

Too much outsourcing, resulting in demoralized employees
Confusion about different divisions and who does what
Need better work/life balance
Lots of VPs, don't know what they do

Advice to Senior Management

Limit the outsourcing and value the employees you have on staff. Make it easier for people to move between divisions.

Pros

It is the place where you can go for long lunches and your bosses don't care about your whereabouts. Great times!

Cons

Low employee morale, poor salary, unpaid overtime, little recognition programs. Overall a good place to start your career but poor long run outlook

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership need more time and space. A lot of micromanaging. Need to inspire people and provide a visonairy understanding of where the company is going.

Pros

Lots of friendly colleagues making a good working enviroment

Cons

Not always busy can lead to some boring days

Pros

Relatively good benefits, very flexible schedule and option of working remotely.

Cons

Salaries are stagnant, way below market values. Even for those people who considered important, it's impossible to negotiate a fair raise. The culture is severely damaged by outsourcing to India. Most of the TCS people are incompetent and very hard to work with. Too many restrictions and very narrow range of responsibilities. A lot of time wasted on really ineffective administrative tasks and tracking of progress,etc. As someone who got to Nielsen by acquisition, i can tell that the range of my responsibilities and therefore access privileges is shrinking every day. If you are a sharp and experienced programmer/IT specialist, I would not recommend working for Nielsen.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees more closely. Try to help them versus trying to save money and worship the upper management. Everyone is too busy, this is not an excuse.

Pros

-Nielsen is a fantastic place to begin your career because you get to work with a wide array of well known clients and learn your industry.

-Nielsen affords you the opportunity to do things much sooner in your career then you would likely be able to otherwise like project management and client presentations.

-Additionally, after 3-4 years, having an everyday office presence is often times not mandatory.

Cons

-There were a few one time isolated 'shock' incidents that prompted me to begin searching for a job so it is fair to say that treatment/actions by senior management is a downside to working for Nielsen.

-Compensation is not competitive with your clients. If you leave the company to work for a client, you will discover that you will be able to earn 25-50% more working somewhere else. If Nielsen offered fantastic work/life balance, that would not be as problematic, but working 70 hours in a week and/or working over vacation time or holidays is too common to say that. Given the compensation differential and mediocre work/life balance, why stay?

-There is weak senior leadership. My business unit has had more leaders than I have years with the company.

-The company is overly bureaucratic and has too many decision makers who are process oriented instead of results oriented.

-I have seen several talented individuals voluntarily leave the company in the past year voluntarily. Watching this consistently transpire is devastating to morale.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide your talented people with an incentive to stay by bringing compensation in-line with your client base. Create a results oriented culture instead of a process oriented culture and provide a clear consistent message about the company's direction to your employees.

Pros

Dynamic environment, talented management, inspirational leaders, solid processes, significant opportunities for professional growth, challenging projects to work on, nice working environment.

Cons

The business has a very steep learning curve, the environment is not appropriate for those individuals that have difficulties dealing with change.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the number of communications, but make the communication more effective and focused. Share with employees more insight into the company's strategy.

Pros

Great flexible schedule - easy to work around
Self managing when properly trained
Industry average benefits
Company car
Company cell and laptop

Cons

You never seem to leave the job, it follows you all day
Demanding work schedule
Technology is often outdated and cumbersome

Advice to Senior Management

Update metering technology - miniaturization and increase processing speeds
Great job on increasing discounts on insurance for healthy employees. - include gym membership as an incentive to stay healthy