Great place for experience - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
11 May 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A great place to start your career. There are great opportunities to work with advanced tools that can answer some of the business questions of the world's leading companies. This experience is highly valued in the marketplace and lead to future opportunities.

Cons

The organization does a very poor job of recognizing talent and promoting leading performers. The promotion process seems arbitrary. Employees often experience more teamwork with clients than within the Nielsen organization. There is often too much emphasis on new processes irrespective of whether or not those processes create efficiency. Compensation is average for marketing research organizations, substandard compared to CPG manufacturers.

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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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