Good brand but suffers from poor management and slow projects - Senior Data Scientist Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- good brand to have on resume - if lucky, you can get some interesting work, otherwise, it'll be mostly be a dull day

Cons

- insane micro management, in office hours are tracked extremely closely and there are repercussions if not met - minimum 6 hours for all 5 days are essential (if your leader is also the CTO of the company) - food in the cafeteria is pathetic, both quality and quantity suffer - projects move extremely slowly, hunger for growth and experimentation is absent - company has moved to service based completely, the product mindset is absent - no clear business goals, just "AI-powered"

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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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