The Nielsen Company Reviews in Singapore, Singapore Area

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

Pros – great people to work with.

Cons – long working hours with days ending very late sometimes

Advice to Senior Management – very less salary as compared to work done.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

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 8 years

Pros – brand name, global career, pay for performance, for aggressive sales people

Cons – managing by numbers only, talent management, technology evolution

Advice to Senior Management – 1. Proactively manage resources (e.g. not hiring when people leave BUT looking at patterns of employee departure in the past 3 years and proactively over hiring to beat the slump in employees)

2. Finance people need business sense not just number sense

3. Proactively managing technology evolution especially mobile and its impact on all of TV ratings, retail measurement etc. Late to the party on online measurement - need to make sure that this does not happen in mobile measurement like mobile TV, mobile advertising

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 as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Lots of opportunities to learn and grow

Cons – None as of yet. still having internship

Advice to Senior Management – nil

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 as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Open culture
Nice colleagues
Flexible working arrangements

Cons – Long working hours
Not much food around

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 more than 10 years

Pros – flexible working hours, but this just means I pretty much work all the hours

Cons – too many hours, not enough investment in the right areas, poor tools to do your job, change is too frequent and based on direct management at time, no long term strategy.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to those closer to the ground!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company

Pros – I like the fact that there is tremendous potential to grow and its a multifunctional company so that people can develop their skills across the various platforms available at Nielsen.

Cons – the company is not open about the merit system and promotions. The salary differentials on the same position are drastic.

Advice to Senior Management – Be more open to the employees and really follow meritocracy for pay raises and promotions. organize some events so that the employees feel a sense of belonging.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend