Middle of the Road - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

4.0
Jul 29, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you want to work for a company that will give you a decent work-life balance this might be the best option.

Cons

The majority of the business units are in cost savings mode and have done little to truly innovate their product line with the changing needs of their clients. As domestic development talent gets cut across the board, data and software products suffer from either (1) the constant transitioning or (2)an inability to devote talent to emerging ideas. This stagnant attitude comes from a company that has numerous cash cows and even a few monopolies. Unfortunately, the end result is that their products and services lack agility and, in general, seem to be losing their edge with their clients.

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Cons

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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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