Nielsen leadership destroyed the company - Chump Nielsen Employee Review

1.0
3 Feb 2024
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Pros

What I loved about Nielsen is completely gone.

Cons

Nielsen thought it could ride on it's name for forever, dragging their feet on modernizing, on seeing the bigger picture. Too many silo'd paths, too much back and forth. Massive debt building and building. Then they had to sell themselves to one of the evilest debt gobbling take over companies out there, and now the European and America labor force, by and large, gone. Mass culling. Reduced severance where you're barely getting any severance at all. You really can't even do us a solid with the severance you gave others? It's a crap market for job hunting and you've knee capped us even harder. It's a terrible way to treat other human beings who made you millions in your personal coffers. Nielsen dragged out their end for a year and a half, round after round of layoffs and then forcing us to work harder with so much less while we all tried to get other jobs in an awful hiring market. No raises. No promotions. Nothing. And now suddenly, blam, you're out. Just like that. Nielsen is taking advantage of cheaper markets in Poland, India, Mexico, exploiting that labor and trashing American and seriously cutting back on severance and healthcare access. Monstrous behavior.

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5.0
14 Apr 2026
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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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