Not the Nielsen it used to be - Client Manager Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Feb 4, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility in hours and able to work from home. Nielsen in well known within the consumer products industry so there is instant brand equity for the products and services.

Cons

The company is currently owned by private equity firm and are reorganizing to boost the bottom line. Employee morale is low. There were layoffs early in 2008, in October and then again at the end of January 2009. the burden is very high on those left to continue the work; many of them are looking for other jobs. Many of the core operational and standard services have been off-shored to India. Consequently the reliability and quality of the data is suffering.

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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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