The beginning of the end - Designer Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
Mar 24, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

We were acquired by Nielsen and then assimilated within the bigger organization. Ability to keep your own hours.

Cons

- Outsourcing. especially if you are not in mid-upper level management. Upper mgmt loves to replace technical people with TCS employees, supposedly cut labor costs. - Top heavy. Upper mgmt is in a flux with roles changing daily. No clear direction as of yet. - Upper mgmt treats employees as replaceable commodities. (again with the intention of outsourcing) The motto is "One engineer/analyst is as good as another cheaper one " - Low morale. - Career growth depends on your immediate supervisor. If you dont brown nose, you dont go ahead.

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Pros

Was a great job with great benefits

Cons

No cons at all honestly

1.0
Apr 16, 2026
Recommend
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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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