Current co-workers are anxious to leave and former fellow employees are happy they did. - Field Representative Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
Jan 28, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Some perks for the field - car, laptop, internet, phone, holidays. Semi - autonomous work, can set own schedule 50% - 75% of the time. Work from home.

Cons

Employees are viewed as commodities with little to no regard to personal life. Employees are incessantly rated against each other every workday, week, month and quarter. Nights and weekends are spent worrying over your performance for the past and future. On top of this, bonuses have been pared back 20-30% and part time help has been eliminated for those in the field - an ever increasing workload. If you like being a number and treated as such, Nielsen is the company. Money quotes from an upper management person during a conference (when confronted with all the negative sentiment from the field): "I am just trying to survive myself" and "I would advice everyone to keep their resume up to date".

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Pros

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Cons

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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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