Many great opportunities for promotion if willing to sacrifice personal life. Must be willing to had over your personal - Field Technician Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Nov 11, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay scale, company car, laptop, cell phone and “field freedom” to wok independently. (60 percent of the time)

Cons

Daily performance numbers based on the performance of your assigned homes, about 85 to 100 of them. Little Timmy plugs in a new xbox without call you first, home faults, grandma forgets to log in using remote, home faults, any electronic failure with nielsen equipment, home faults. You are responsible for the actions of randomly selected homes. You will be expected to be available to work 8 am to midnight M-F. If you need time off within that range you must ask for approval. Performance number are low, expected to work saturday and expect to call aggravated cooperatives (nielsen homes) mostly done on Sunday night to set up appointments.Understand, most homes don't know what they are getting in to when they sign up and get upset, frustrated from all the visits to fix stuff, be prepared to deal with lots of animosity. This job is OK for single people, family people beware. It isn't a job but a lifestyle because the work load is unbearable most of the time. Keep in mind, it ia a random sample, one day in a mansion and the next day the Opposite. (filthy, roach infested, stinky homes)

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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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