The Nielsen Company Reviews

Pros

Great reputation
Work with many Fortune 500 clients
Casual dress code
Flexible hours

Cons

Demanding work schedule
Lot of turnover and outsourcing
Low salaries

Pros

Ability to grow within the company. Global Reach. Industry Best. Great people

Cons

Private Equity. Outsourced many departments. Reduced Staff. Long hours.

Advice to Senior Management

Currenty it appears senior leadership is benifiting from companies cost cutting measures. Big disconnect between How Senior leaders are profiting vs the workers.

Pros

Good Company - Great Reputation - Works with the biggest brands in the world

Cons

Lots of change at the moment. Restructuring

Pros

Nielsen does an excellent job of moving successful people forward in the organization. I see good people around me moving up as the drive more value for the clients they work on.

Cons

Meeting the expectations of clients can be demanding. You have to be ready an able to meet their needs in a timely manner.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep pushing us forward in the direction of a value added consultative organization. Moving us in this direction provides stable relationships with our clients.

Pros

Nielsen has a market advantage of owning cross media consumer info. It has lots of talented people who are eager to innovate.

Cons

Too process oriented. People who develop the process do not understand what software development is. Old fashion tools such as WORD and EXCEL are used to manage large enterprise projects instead of investing in automated tools. These time consuming process hinders the business's ability to be innovative and be quick to market.

People are boxed into particular functions and job descriptions. Cross training or taking on work that is not in your own area of responsibility is discouraged. Communication is a nightmare when you have to remember to include all the people who needs to know.

Advice to Senior Management

Management needs to recognize that the GE style isn't for every industry. The company needs to be nimble to be successful in today's competitive world.

Pros

work from home, car , expense account, flexable hrs, take off when you need too, usally no questions asked. ok for people with a sroung work ethic

Cons

performance based on other people and they make you responsible for those people actions, layoffs they try to hide from the media. management out touch with the field, only worried about bottom line and not their employees

Pros

Good salary and bonus plan, interesting and unique project work, interesting products, great location, casual work environment, opportunity to travel

Cons

Management essentially by one person with teams organized around crisis of the day. Team leads selected by relationship and seemingly irrelevant if they do a good or bad job.
No career progression opportunities due to constant reorganization

Advice to Senior Management

Everything that Nielsen does is custom built, which requires in house intellectual property - don't lose your IP to save money/

Pros

A real focus on people development and lots of opportunity to work in different divisions or markets. Great people to work with who have a real sense of caring and sharing.

Cons

Renumeration is under the norm so retention is a challenge as salaries in FMCG companies an often be 30 - 40% higher.

Advice to Senior Management

Meritocracy is being abused by some managers who play favourites. Senior management should be measured as much on behavior as performance.

Pros

They work with a huge number of companies which makes possible to be in contact with different kind of issues at the same time. working with many companies backgrounds and interests also.

Cons

The internal career plan is not followed by the book, or supported either. which means that, when the employees are expecting something to improve in their professional field, the company is not as supportive as they say.

Advice to Senior Management

NA

Pros

if u've gain market product knowledge

Cons

no growth & lot of hours working

Advice to Senior Management

good experience