Watch out for who your manager is - Associate Manager, Client Consulting, BASES Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
9 Nov 2009
Recommend
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Pros

It has a great name in market research and will allow you to work with the top FMCG companies. At BASES, you will learn state-of-the-art modeling and analyses of marketing plans and innovation projects. Fun place to work.

Cons

Watch out for who your manager is (or group manager). This makes all the difference. In my first year in the company my department of 14 people had ZERO turnover. Not bad, hun? I loved to work there. Then one change of manager (not even my direct manager), took things down. In two years, almost everyone left. My group manager would demand long work hours from everyone - she would come in late and leave late, therefore she would make everybody else leave late as well. She had a flexible work schedule, others had to follow hers or else. Absolutely no respect for work-life balance. I participated in a all-analyst event to discuss the company's future and talk about problems other people in my team trusted me with and, the information that was supposed to be private and anonymous reached my managers and a few months later I was laid off. At BASES, you will have a limited set of skills extremely especialized that may not be relevant to other employers, especially if you are not in the entry level roles.

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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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