129 Nielsen Reviews

"Nielsen is a good company."

"Good company to work for."

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

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."

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?

"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 liked the people I worked with, the environment and the actual work I did."

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

"Scrutinize whether the position you're interviweing for is a replacement type or a growth type and see for yourself whether another round of layoffs is inevitable."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"The decisions made by the highers up such as outsourcing most of the work and laying off 95% of the people in the NY/NJ office."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Value the people who work for you and don't trat them as if they're numbers."

"No job security, stressful culture, the hours are bordeline slavery"

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"They allowed telecommuting and flexible work schedule. I enjoyed most of my coworkers. Alot of great people."

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

"Unless you are a career person who loves working all the time or are desperate for a paycheck - DO NOT WORK HERE. You'll be utterly miserable."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Lack of job security. You WILL lose your job eventually. Lack of work/life balance. Management will tell you there are 7 business days in a week. Unrealstic deadlines, requiring 7-day work weeks. Payraises had ceased completely prior to my leaving the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give a rip about your employees. They are not emotionless robots that you can work to death until you can find a way to eliminate them from your payroll. They are human beings."

"Horrible culture, no job security, low pay"

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Telecommuting allowed. I also worked with some great people, but I can say that about any company I've ever worked for. That's about all the positives I can think of."

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

"Unless you are desperate for a paycheck or want to give your soul to the company - Do NOT work here."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"No job security whatsoever - neverending rounds of layoffs/outsourcing of work. Payraises had ceased at least a year or two before I quit (and I always got good reviews). No work/life balance at all - you were told there are 7 business days in a week. Most people had to work 7-day weeks to try to meet the ridiculous delivery dates. Employee morale = horrible. Some people were ASKING to be laid off so they could just get out and get their severance, if that tells you anything. You would get yelled at by some managers frequently for virtually no reason. I was delivering all of my work prior to the deadlines, yet was being told I wasn't doing my job. Say what"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try giving a rip about your employees. They are not emotionless robots that you can work to death until you can find a way to remove them from your payroll. They are human beings."

"Oursourcing, horrible culture, hours were borderline slavery"

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"They allowed telecommuting. Guess that's about all I can think of."

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

"Unless you are desperate for a paycheck or are a career man/woman who doesn't mind giving your soul away to the company - DO NOT WORK AT NIELSEN. You will be utterly miserable."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Outsourcing to the max, so no job security at all, no matter how long you'd been with the company. Payraises eliminated a couple years before I quit. No work/life balance at all - 7 business days per week is what we were told, and most people had to work 7-day workweeks due to the unrealistic delivery dates promised to customers. No employee morale, and you would frequently get yelled at by some managers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Try giving a rip about your employees instead of working them to death until you can find a way to replace them with cheaper labor or eliminate their position entirely. These people are HUMAN BEINGS. There are more important things than your bottom line, especially when you are already filthy rotten rich to begin with. How many yachts do you need"

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Good coworkers, great clients, a lot of work, comfortable environment"

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

"Depends on department. Some better than others. They want to know results."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Three words: salary, salary, salary. Also impossible to advance beyond certain level. Merit system not clear."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I'm not sure - it's a huge job. I guess that I'd appreciate employees a little more."