Dissatisfaction goes unnoticed - Data Scientist Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
30 Apr 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Generally good work/life balance - Smart people - Employee resource groups (e.g. Women in Nielsen) - Company is making strides to stay relevant and keep technology updated - A lot of emphasis on data quality and objectivity - There are technical routes for those who do not want to manage people but still want to grow at the company - Working remotely is widely accepted

Cons

- Cross-team tensions due to misaligned priorities and poor communication - Poor management, apparent lack of manager training, and no ability for reports to review managers or give feedback - Teams/products are in silos - Employees are significantly underpaid relative to industry averages - Retention is very poor - No 360 peer reviews during employee review period - Frequent reorgs - No structure for automatic raises or promotions for good performance. You have to apply to a different role to move up.

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5.0
14 Apr 2026
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Pros

Was a great job with great benefits

Cons

No cons at all honestly

1.0
16 Apr 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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