Think multiple times before you join - Senior Data Scientist Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
13 May 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. Most colleagues are super friendly and smart 2. Great office locations 3. WLB towards L, not W

Cons

1. Some people I worked with are clueless. Never know what the product is about and never bother to learn 2. From the latest NYT piece DK wants to turn offices into meeting places. For those paying big bucks for a shoebox apartment that's a really thoughtful decision. 3. WLB towards L, not W 4. Middle management tends to be clueless. I've seen people not knowing any ML leading a team of MLEs 5. The love of using whatever buzzwords DK uses. Eg. "AI". Keeping saying AI won't make this company an AI company. 6. Salary way below average (check Glassdoor before you accept an offer) 7. Minimal upward mobility 8. Currently not doing so well and there are waves of furloughs and layoffs

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Pros

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Cons

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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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