I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Nielsen (Pittsburgh, PA)
Interview
The process here was horrible, low communication, and random returns. In addition to have had 2 different recruiters (when a change was not told to me).
Then the second recruiter had reapplied me to the wrong position and that denial sent me backwards.
All in all the interview process makes me feel the company is not functional adept internally.
Process start with phone calls to HR, then to the Hiring manager. Afterwards I provided a coding sample.
This went rather quickly as I was a referral. This happened 2018 Nov.
Next I waited till January when they phone me back up to do an onsite. The onsite was told to me that it would be 2 parts, ideally a week apart.
I do the first one mid January, and then wait for the call to schedule. It never comes, and I assume they moved on.
I tried emailing to find out for sure, and was met with a disconnected email address and loss my only connection to HR.
So I assume I am out.
Then mid February comes around and I get a suspicious email that reads like a scam. Knowing my friend is on the inside I decide it's not a red flag. We set up a time for the last onsite. It went over time by an hour so I thought this was good.
A week and half later I get an email saying I was denied for not being Qualified for the QA position I didn't apply for...
I reach again and get a response that says the same thing.
All in all this process was a huge waste of time. The hiring process red flags should scare anyone away.
Nielsen’s interview process includes application screening, recruiter call, technical and behavioral interviews, case discussions, stakeholder meetings, and final evaluation focusing on analytical skills, collaboration, communication, and cultural fit, overall excellence.
Online assessment consisting of 2 dp questions (medium level)
2 Tech interviews with a focus on System Design and Core Fundamentals along with a deep dive on resume. This was followed by a managerial round and finally a HR round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Uber and one binary search question on leetcode
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Nielsen (Bengaluru) in Dec 2025
Interview
there are 2 rounds conducted for the hiring process
first round is online test
in the first round they asked me 20 mcqs from apitude,core cs subjects + 2 dsa questions and second round is a personal interview it consisted of 3 sections
1 section dsa question
2 section sql question
3. from projects
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