Okay place to be. - Senior Market Research Analyst Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Aug 14, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good place to get some training and name recognition before leaving. You can get your foot in the door on the client side once you have the Nielsen name on your resume. It's also easy to go to another consulting firm that uses Nielsen data (but those firms are often bad places to work).

Cons

BASES, the unit I worked, has some long hours and is insulated from the rest of the company. At BASES, the best you can hope for is VP and that takes around 8 years. The forecasting is a bit sketchy. Sometimes numbers are made up and the adjustments are made on a manager's whim or "intuition"

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Pros

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Cons

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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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