Nielsen Reviews

3.0

40% would recommend to a friend

(8,192 total reviews)

David Kenny

42% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Nielsen has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 8,192 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Nielsen employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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8K reviews
2.0
23 Jan 2024

Toxic & Boring

Recommend
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Pros

Lots of free time and you can pick from time to time what you want to work on.

Cons

Toxic leadership, with most Nielsen employers who are at the Executive level being lifelong or 15 to 25 years at the company. Massive inner circle and if you do not complement the MD constantly you will be out. Even those that did often found themselves being kicked out. Nielsen normally lets go of people when they are on annual leave as it makes the blowback less.

2.0
18 July 2021

Dysfunctional and uninspiring workplace

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

People are nice Flexible WFH

Cons

- Very poor senior leadership who have surrounded themselves with professional grovellers instead of people who are good at what their job - Very cliquey and political - Frequently competing goals - Zero accountability from management who are experts at taking credit and passing on blame - Constantly under-resourced but still an expectation to just make it happen anyway - Lowest payer in the industry

1.0
16 June 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good exposure to full repertoire of insights and analytics tools. Good place to ramp up on a range of methodologies. More effective than "going back to school" Encouraging of innovation - willing to take a gamble on a new approach/ framework (if they can see a $ in it) Really smart people at AD level and below - work hard, play hard culture and strong team spirit

Cons

Local Leadership Team demonstrate high levels of favouritism that alienate their hardest workers and top performers in favour of the "political players". Consistently does not engage with external employment surveys feeding back the same. Defaults concerningly often to a "bully-out" approach rather than formal performance management. Ethical HR leadership lacking and enables the following of HR and legal processes to be at the discretion of the manager. Local leadership hamstrung by a Regional leadership that does not back them. Inconsistency of leadership or vision results in significant restructures annually or more frequently. In 3 years quite normal to have 5 different roles Attrition exceptionally high and recruitment very slow, leaving significant gaps in teams with no recognition in workload. Double edged sword, if short staffed team continues to deliver the resource is never replaced, if they do not deliver this directly impacts bonus and ratings. As bonus system is cumulative, a bad bonus in one year linked purely to team performance takes years to recover from. Monthly revenue targets managed aggressively, creating a highly stressful atmosphere in down times and taking focus more to quantity rather than quality of work

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