Great early learning process; but questionable long-term. - Research Analyst Nielsen Employee Review

4.0
Oct 2, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly atmosphere, lots of young people, good understanding of work/life balance. Good name recognition of the company. Excellent reputation with clients. Direct engagement with clients, and a lot of responsibility, relatively early in career. In general you learn a lot in your first 2-3 years, but after that it just seems like more of the same, unless you get tapped to help lead a foreign office or get moved into another role/division within the larger company.

Cons

Crappy 401k matching (also requires 3 years of service to vest). Salary freeze in effect all year so far; talk of "reevaluation" come 2010, but no firm commitments on lifting it. Relatively crappy office locations, with the exception of the HQ in NYC and maybe some of the european offices.

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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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