good potential, but not an inspiring place for many - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
Oct 28, 2009
Anonymous employee
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Pros

some parts of Nielsen have good growth potential and culture; the possibilities to combine products across business units make for interesting consultancy and custom solutions. integration has been a goal since the VNU days but only now it is picking up steam.

Cons

recognition culture is missing. outsourcing trends are understandable but disturbing as resulting quality is slow to improve; company is trying to push integration at the same time, so lots of change for employees to absorb, they are frustrated and things can feel a bit directionless. acquired business units with an entrepreneurial culture having difficulty fitting into a bigger organization. communication around crisis actions, layoffs etc has not been inspiring.

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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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