A once great company is being picked clean by the Private Equities that own it. - Senior Account Executive Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
23 Feb 2012
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Pros

Best place to learn the basics of quantitative audience research. Also great for learning how to deal with demanding and often irate clients. If you can succeed in client service here, you will be a star anywhere else.

Cons

The concerted experience and brain drain that started in 2008 is unfortunately still going on. Invaluable knowledge and experience has been sacrificed in the name of financial expediency. So don't expect to have a lot of subject matter experts around to help you learn this rather specilized and complex business as was the norm in the past. If you don't learn on the fly well, look elsewhere.

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5.0
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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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