The Nielsen Company Reviews

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – extensive training available, flexible work hours, great colleagues who are always willing to lend a hand

Cons – work-life balance non-existent with majority of clients, low morale among more senior employees

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Company has many courses available. Some departments offer employees the ability to work from home. Great company to start at if you want to work in a CPG company.

Cons – Too much outsourcing which has affected the quality of deliverables. Low morale among long term employees who remember the good old days. Work-life balance is non-existent.

Advice to Senior Management – If you want good people to stay, they must be offered better compensation, or more work-life balance.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – Work from home, lots of company events, intensive training and many courses available to take over time spent there.

Cons – Steep learning curve, average to low salary, company slashing jobs recently

Advice to Senior Management – Improve employee morale with increased communication

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than a year

Pros – support continuous learning internally and externally
great people - big team atmosphere
tons of opportunity to work across different teams/divisions
great recognition - all hard work is noticed
a great place to start your career and learning a lot of different aspects of the CPG marketing world.

Cons – depending on the department you work in, it can be long hours

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at The Nielsen Company

Pros – Great friendly environment, Very supportive

Cons – New management push learning curve too high for me entrires

Advice to Senior Management – There is a learning curve that have been characterizing Nielsen's excellence but miss interpreted by new management

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at The Nielsen Company full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Pay is pretty good. Can get headhunted to other CPG companies.

Cons – Stress, stress and more stress.

Advice to Senior Management – Please look out for your people, not just the financial.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at The Nielsen Company

Pros – good work life balance environment

Cons – seems like there is outsourcing every year for the past 5yrs

Advice to Senior Management – Enough with the outsourcing, the company has lost a lot of good people. The outsourcing quality is not up to par

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company

Pros – they do a good job on respecting work life balance

Cons – outdated technology in getting to speedy insights

Advice to Senior Management – developing technology

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at The Nielsen Company

Pros – Really Great Work life balance .

Cons – The IT dept outsourced to India

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to the corp culture instead of the just out sourcing jobs. the media side seems to be really behind the new competitors...

Current Employee – been working at The Nielsen Company

Pros – If you are in Marketing, the analytic process is something you need to know. Why not learn it from the Dragons Den?

Cons – Retention of key employees will be an ongoing concern

Advice to Senior Management – Targeting employees from the Manufacturing Side, who have category experience, and offering them a flexible work environment (which would work well with new parents) in exchange for category konwledge, job security and a pay cut. This would provide increased value to the client, while preventing the forced "value add" attempts from recent university grads.