Great place to learn and start a career but highly underpaid and poor management. - Research Executive Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
1 Jan 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Exposure to many categories/industries and large MNCs. Always work and less hierarchy within the department, employees often work one-on-one with senior management, a great way to learn. Management is not hesitant to throw you in deep-end, you are given many responsibilities from the beginning which allows one to learn a lot. Satisfied with how much I have learned and feel its a great place to start.

Cons

There is no work and personal life balance. You are constantly told that you just need to plan time better and that you are at liberty to take a break but the time-lines and inadequate manpower forces one to constantly work late nights and weekends. Management is also frustrating, difficult to get responses as everyone is always too busy. HR is very disorganized and not professional. HR does not do a good job of welcoming or informing employees of procedures yet they are a very procedure driven corporation, it leaves you in the dark.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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