Good for your resume, but there is a reason everyone leaves after 2-3 years. - Analyst Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
25 Mar 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Company name - Mostly nice, intelligent co-workers - Exposure to very big clients and leaders in the industry

Cons

- Long, long hours (esp for pay) with very little respect for work/life balance - Worked until very late, but when performance review time comes along, all they highlight are your weaknesses, discouraging you further - Performance review process requires at least some employees to receive a bad rating, no matter how hard you've worked. There is a lot of political corporate BS. - Team morale is extremely low. - Attrition rates are very high especially in departments where people are overworked and underpaid, e.g. BASES - There is a huge disconnect between the senior management and the rest of Nielsen - People are generally unhappy to work here and there is no feeling of cohesive unity

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5.0
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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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