Nielsen Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Strategic vision, change management, marketing creativity and commercial overachievement with a full autonomy"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure that the culture of the company fits with your own personality"

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"The energy spent internally to lead projects.The lack of boldness"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"the principle of management is to endorse responsibility and to assume the consequences."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"I Enjoyed the people and felt I learned a lot while I was there."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Make sure you are ready for questions about you experience with excel and your experience with leading projects in the past."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"There didn't seem to be that much room for growth."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide the employees with more opportunity to advance in their careers."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Some intelligent, dedicated quality people still remain in the company."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"I would avoid it if possible unless you can't find anything else."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Benefits are among the least competitive in the industry. Salaries are not competitive. No employee can be comfortably assured of a job next week. It's a never ending environment of chaos centered on productivity gains. You may appreciate this if you're an investor. Not so much if you're a client or employee. Its a machine with a focus on productivity, efficiency and market cap. No vision for how they'll stay in business in the future."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. The people you hire to turn a business around are generally not qualified to run it."

"Great opportunity to further my career with a well respected company."

"Good company to work for."

"Nielsen is a good company."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"This is the worst company I have ever worked for"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Do not work for this company. It would be a terrible move especially with them constantly downsizing."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Where do I begin The pay is abysmal. You're overworked. No one listens to your ideas. You are treated like a dog and basically told to shut up. There is ZERO opportunity to move up or even laterally to a different division. Good luck ever getting a raise. They are constantly laying people off...scratch that...finding reasons to fire them so they don't have to lay people off."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Wake up. The top down communication is poor at best. There are to many managers all worried about covering their own butts and saving their jobs. They are not taught how to be effective managers"

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"It was always changing and I learned something new everyday."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"You have to get past the HR reciter in order for a manger to see your resume."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"The office politics were horrible and the managers did not foster an environment or respect."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Just because someone has worked at the company for 40 years does not mean they are doing their current job well."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"The people are great and the facilities are very nice."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The company is focused on hiring more women and minorities."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Upper management doesn't appreciate employees. Human Resources and Tech Support are very poor."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Change from a short-term focus to a long-term focus for the company."