Nielsen Media Research - it should be better, it could be worse. .. - Software Developer II Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Jan 26, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Good salarys for a Florida Company. Good Health Benifit.s Nice recognition awards when you do well.

Cons

Low morale due to instability of employment retention, constant worry that position, whole department will be eliminated and offshored to Tata consultancy. Key skills have quit leaving gaps in knowledge base. They eliminated the pension and replace it with a 401K that got slaughtered last year. They used to match employee charitable contributions but that ended. So many people have left since Mitchel Habib took over as CFO that there are huge gaps in the knowledge base that can not be replaced by a 25 year old Indian national from Bangalore over night. I would guess that the company has had a 40% turnover in the Oldsmar Technical Support Center since the fall of 2007.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Absolutley nothing. Which is a tragedy, because Nielsen was once an absolutely great place to work. I wanted to retire here. The culture used to be great, and I really loved being a part of this place. I loved my team, my management, and the people. Then along came the current CEO who is the classic example of a person who knows the cost of everything, but the value of nothing. He took over and ran the company full speed ahead in to the iceberg. And to try and save the sinking ship, he laid off literally thousands of highly experienced, highly trained, and highly engaged people to replace them with fresh overseas hires who know nothing about the company and expect them to be trained from the ground up to replace literally centuries of collective expererience and client relations. It's a disaster. This CEO shouldn't be trusted to run a lemonade stand.

Cons

Everything. Pay, job security, culture, management. Nothing is good here anymore. Don't take a job here unless you are truly desperate. And even then, it should only be as a stop-gap until you can find something else.

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