Nielsen is not a place to stay too long - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
18 Jan 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nielsen is well recognized for its products and services. This is a great start to your career; it looks good to have Nielsen on your resume.

Cons

Right now I feel as if Nielsen is on a downward trend. Dave Calhoun has suspended promotions and raises for six months, and there is a hiring freeze, on top of layoffs in the latter part of last year. This is not helping employee morale. In fact, this strategy is going to drive away talented employees who will find opportunities on the client side where they will get rewarded for their hard work.

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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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