The company is going downhill, I would not recommend working here. - Associate Director Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
16 Mar 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues, diversity and inclusion, networking groups.

Cons

The company has had many organizational changes to the point where it's difficult to get anything done. Management is constantly changing the strategy and they are losing clients left and right ever since they lost Kroger (The # grocer in the U.S.) Technology challenges also make it difficult to work there as clients are constantly frustrated by the tech issues. Across Retail, Manufacturing, and the Practice Areas, they are continually reducing resources and putting more accounts on each person. I know one associate who had 40 accounts put on her. Yet they still expect these folks to drive value and build client relationships while juggling all the heavy account management work and fire drills across the clients. Company has transformed into a completely "sales oriented" culture. It's no longer about caring about clients but more about selling selling selling. Not about giving their teams the bandwidth and tools to drive or add value, even though they tell their associates to do that as well, on top of heavy delivery, account management work, a lot of red tape, and broken processes .Clients see that, and that is why they are all leaving Nielsen.

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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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