The Nielsen Company Reviews

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – You get to learn a lot. Lots of oportunity at entry level. Based on meritocracy. Job rotation is high, so you get to work with lots of clients. Good environment.

Cons – Meritocracy doesn't work. Your manager will promote whoever he likes, based on afinity, not on performance. Salaries are lower than mkt average. Too much work for too little payment.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time

Pros – Steep learning curve, accessible location

Cons – Steep learning curve, meagre pay, judgmental culture (due to female dominated environment), unjustified overwhelming workload, inexperienced managers, zero work life balance, micro management (minimal autonomy), snail speed promotion, constant brainwashing, non official responsibilities and roles on top of day to day workload, pretentious culture.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen, watch and ACT.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – get mentors, opportunities for advancement, interesting innovations, fun environment

Cons – the pay could be higher

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time for less than a year

Pros – Exciting opportunities and can grow and learn quickly. You have chances to experience different industries and different clients. Busy and professional colleagues. Direct and easy communication.

Cons – Very time consuming. A lot of over time. You will get very busy especially when the project is about to due. Have to face the challenges from clients all the time. Have to be extremely flexible. There will be changes even minutes before presentations.

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – -Great Experience
-Provide high value consulting to world class clients
-Get to see my impact enacted in market on products
-Get to work with great, highly intelligent people

Cons – -Tough work/life balance
-People get burned out

Advice to Senior Management – Find ways to lessen the burden on employees, too many highly talented people get burned out.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time

Pros – - Good Brand name
- Global exposure
- Awesome culture and environment

Cons – - Finance driven philosophy
- Not clear HR promotion policy
- Very slow growth since changed the compensation policy last year
- Not a good quality that make you to do interaction with manager/top management for planning and suggesting ideas.
- Workload due to daily deliverable

Advice to Senior Management – need to know the employee situation by putting legs into the our shoes.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Good investment in future information technologies

Cons – Finance-driven philosophy puts pressure on culture

Advice to Senior Management – Now that the market is up, perhaps the VC consortium can sell its remaining holdings.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company

Pros – good working environment and teamwork

Cons – overtime didn't paid.
high turnover rate

Former Employee – worked at The Nielsen Company full-time for less than a year

Pros – Lots of learning opportunities, colleagues are nice and friendly, eager to share with you

Cons – Long hours, poor work life balance, poor compensation/ benefits that resulted many people to leave, high turnover rate, progression is low.

Advice to Senior Management – Increase pay and benefits to make the experienced staff and those good staff to stay, hire more staff to cope with the workload.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Close to my home. Looks good on a resume. Lots of training for work you will never get to do until you leave the place.

Cons – The outsourced everything and more everyday. It takes 5 days just to get a password reset on the mainframe. Used to take 5 mins. No one to ask questions about the data to as they have let go of people that had the data knowledge.

Advice to Senior Management – Good luck with the outsourcing. You are very close to breaking the business and I don't think you know it yet. Outsourcing American jobs is not the right thing to do for your country and you are only hurting yourself and your generations to come. I guess you can look at yourself in the mirror because all you see is the dollar signs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company