Great Experience, Develop Tough Skin & Politics - Client Manager Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Oct 23, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent opportunity to develop relationships with numerous CPG companies from the inside. Develop skills to identify client issues and become business partner to solve and grow their business. Great cross section of market research tools and use of data.

Cons

As a client contractor, can be challenging to develop strong relationships. Can, at times, be adversarial with client's market research team. Internal Nielsen can be very political and you will need to learn how to best play in this environment. Also, technical and data issues that arise (beyond your control) become your problem as the face of Nielsen.

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5.0
Apr 14, 2026
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Pros

Was a great job with great benefits

Cons

No cons at all honestly

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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