Nielsen Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"Claritas is no longer an employee friendly company."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"The people I work with are the best people to have next to you."

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

"Ask to have the pay structure written down in a contract. The pay structure has changed every year since I've been here."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"The management is driven solely by the bottom line now, when in the past they were much more employee friendly and had a lot of events that made you feel like you were part of a family."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Stop lieing and keeping secrets from the employees. They can tell you're not telling them everything they need to know."

"Big company, so much to see and learn, but it remains the old boys club where those who rubbed the right elbows earned far more than those who pushed the most important buttons."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Nice office and location for it. Many changes to learn and see so much of the business."

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

"Put your face in front of your monitor and stay focused on the job."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Extreme amounts of internal politics."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Look around please."

"If you can put up with corp BS it's ok."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Freedom. Work out of own home, setting own schedule, company car, phone, computer, credit card, gas card."

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

"Do your work and keep records of every email and everything you do or say. You have to cya all the time."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Corp BS, job security is minimal due to constant threats regarding production. No protection from supervisors. Most management is more worried about protecting their jobs only."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"None. They don't listen or care to listen."

"This is my personal assessment."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"There is so much history and information available."

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

"Do your research. Find out what their core compentencies are and how that fits into the market research world."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Personally, I felt pigeon-holed and needed a drastic change of pace."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Focus more on employees advancement desires/"

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"I liked setting up the systems and meeting new people."

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

"Good company as long as you plan on moving up the ranks quickly."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"The hours were long and I found I no personal time."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Go through the training program so you know how the systems work."

"Great job!!"

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Working independently and working with the customers face to face"

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

"If you do not like to work on a computer most of the day look elsewhere"

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"2 to 3 hours of paperwork at night after I got home."

"Nielsen has ungone several changes in the past three years and it's not what it use to be."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Family oriented."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Nielsen has ungone several changes in the past three years and it's not what it use to be. Job security it on the line everyday and it can sometimes can be a bit stressful."

"Used to be a great place to work - but Exec Management focused on their dollars, not people"

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Some really great people to work with, challenging projects, opportunity to use your talents in a lot of different areas."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Short sighted action taking the long view. Cutting people with solid skills, in order to bring in higher level management resources that produce less. Outsourcing in order to save revenue but losing quality in process."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Realize that you can only cut so deep before the blood stops running. Nielsen used to be a great company to work for, now it's become a place where there is little to no camaraderie, everyone fears the next re-org and fewer people are happy in their jobs."

"Great sales environment with good account/territory structure."

"Nielsen Media Research was a good place to start my career."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"I learned to troubleshoot multiple inter-related systems, and increased my ability to focus on details. On a normal day, outside of busy periods, the work environment was fairly relaxed."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Sometimes Nielsen Media Research was too top-heavy in terms of management"

"No leadership and the ship is sinking."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"flexibility in hours."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"limited advancement opportunity"

"Nielsen is a very competitive work enviroment and provides a great experience in the market research industry."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"It has a strong reputation in the field market research."

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

"Be prepared to put in alot of hours..."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"The clients can be very demanding of your time."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Great CEO with a real vision for the future who fosters a culture of excellence."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Technical challenge of working for one of the most unstructured IT Operations I have ever encountered"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Learn to appreciate that IT can be the most effective enabler and driver of efficiency that you can have in your business - it's not just a cost centre."