Private Equity has ruined the culture... like it dos. - Field Representative Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
24 Jun 2025
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Pros

The pros are that it is a job, with decent benefits, for the times we live in. The company car is nice, and hours are somewhat flexible.

Cons

Occasionally required to work weekends, and often working into the evenings. A recent reorganization has left most field reps overworked. KPIs are constantly shifting, and the bonus incentive program that once made this a livable job has been chipped away to the point where it offers little real benefit. The biggest con is that the company was acquired by Elliott Investment Management in 2022, through its private equity arm Evergreen Coast Capital. The culture has been unstable and erratic ever since. After the acquisition, they quickly went underwater on the loan for their share of the leveraged buyout, and, as always, it’s the employees who end up paying for the mistakes of people in finance.

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5.0
14 Apr 2026
Recommend
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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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