Bloated, Hopelessly Dysfunctional. - Senior Software Engineer Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
15 Sept 2018
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Pros

- Middle Management that cares. - Good salary / Benefits.

Cons

- Tech stack is more than 12+ years behind industry standards. Poorly implemented solutions abound. - Poor quality software and implementations. Not uncommon to see an outages daily or hourly from multiple teams. Zero ownership for leadership to resolve these issues. Kills most teams productivity, not uncommon to see tech folks quit over work-life balance. - Lack of work-life balance if you are on the wrong team. - Old school top-down management that things throwing unqualified folks on a technical problems or projects will produce better results. - Bloated. Too many folks performing tasks that could easily be automated. Too many processes that are in place that create red tape. - Bloated. Consultants are killing the organization. No one is watching the hen house. Most technical staff don't have the proper skills to do their jobs, yet they are hired. - Bloated. An irrational, unexplainable level of duplication of services Too many teams performing the same functions.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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