Immense Potential if Management Could Get-It-Together - Anonymous employee Nielsen Employee Review

3.0
6 Sept 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The work is interesting and there is room to grow and create your own path The breth The breath of market data and knowledge should lead to huge growth for the company once they learn to bring it all together Lots of opportunities if you are willing to fight for them and the stars are all aligned

Cons

Significant discrepancies in how the various company functions are managed and rewarded Poor upper management communication and lots of secretiveness Hiring salaries are often competitive but long-term pay increases fall below industry standards and performance has little reflection in salaries or bonuses While superstars can get some recognition, underperformers are tolerated and enabled

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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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