Nielsen Employee Job Reviews in the United States

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"I enjoyed working with media advertisers and learning about the industry."

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

"I would suggest that people who enjoy working in a customer service role without feeling like a call center to apply with this company for this position."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"I did not want to continue my career in a customer service role."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I do not have any suggestions because I felt that the management offered support and recognition."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Nielsen is a young company, with casual dress code and fairly flexible work day hours and work from home options."

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

"Take your time and demonstrate how you can thing and problem solve."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"You spend most of your time behind a desk, and the work isn't overly creative. I don't feel like I'm being challenged in areas that interest me and don't get enough social interaction."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do a better job of recognizing interests of talent and moving them around the company."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"I like the industry. Summer Fridays are a really great perk too."

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

"it's a great place to work but make sure you"

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"i'm not sure I want to get into specifics on a website"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I don't know enough about the ins and outs to answer that fairly."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"Overall, media research is really interesting. It also has a lot of different research products. Finding the right niche, however, is difficult."

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

"Be prepared and be patient. There are hoops to jump through -- or so I hear. I was grandfathered in because Nielsen bought the company that I had been working for."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"The global aspect of what I do. I am expected to take calls at 10 pm and 5 am (and on weekends) in order to meet the needs of clients in Australia, China, Thailand, Russia, etc. That gets to be too much sometimes."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The company is global. I don't think I could say that I'd do anything differently because I only see a tiny portion of what's going on."

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What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"A company car was a nice perk but over $70 per pay period was deducted for personal use regardless of personal miles driven."

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

"I would turn and run the other way but be sure to ask the meaning of having a home office. This is not the case as you need to be on the road constantly. It is all about production so working from home is very misleading."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"High stress and low job satisfaction. This job requires one to knock on doors without an appointment and recruit the home to be part of the Nielsen TV Ratings. It sounds easy because the rep is not actually selling a product or collecting money. The fact is that it is not easy simply because people do not want to be bothered and are wary of strangers at their door. Winter time is especially difficult not because of the cold but because it gets dark by 5pm in most places. The evening is prime recruitment time since that is when people tend to be home. However, try to get someone to open their door for you at night. Good luck! Goals are unrealistic and blanketed across the country with little regard for drive time and workload. Addresses are chosen for you so you are at the mercy of people answering their door or not. The MR role will not prepare you for anything either in or out of the company. I would stay away and if you really want to sell and work with people then get a job in B2B sales where bonuses are not withheld at the whim of the associate directors."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The managers that set the minimums are the survivors and have limited experience recruiting homes. They lack vision and more importantly and understanding of the difficult nature of this job. They set targets without an understanding of what is realistic. They will replace people rather than trying to develop them."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"It was a job with an unconventional work schedule. I had the flexibility to work at anytime of the day and week."

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

"Do not fall off course. Work hard and reach your targets consistently. Focus on your goals and stay motivated."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"I had to travel too much around the United States."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Offer employees self improvement seminars. I think its best to improve a person's confidence and motivation."

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"I love that I am able to work remotely from home."

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

"Make sure you understand the many different applications within Nielsen. Nielsen is represented through out the world and has many different applications, skills, cultures."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Communication is lacking, information does not trickle down from management. You usually find about by word of mouth."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Improve Communication, listen to your employees, surveys taken on how you feel about the company but nothing done with the negative feedback."

"challeging and diffrent"

What do you like about working at Nielsen?

"personal freedom to work from home and telecommute, also the company car"

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

"Ask More questions up front about hours of work required of employees and not to assume they are the same as yoy current job."

What don't you like about working at Nielsen?

"Working at such late hours. Our main hours of operation are from 3:00pm to 8:00pm"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"explain to new employees before accepting new job of late night hours"

"Nielsen is a large company, which a big-company culture and all the challenges that go with it. While their primary focus is data, they are not a software company, so their relationships with their offshore vendors is critical to the success of their software systems."

"My company was recently acquired by Nielsen. In a short period of time, our salaries have been cut, we have been relocated to NYC (from New Providence, NJ), our benefits cost $5000 more per year and we no longer receive a yearly bonus."

"Internal politics make salary raises very slow and promotions even slower, even when they were already offered to you."

"Arbitron (now Nielsen Audio) is a good company with amazing benefits. You could meet some great people and establish some good business relationships."

"I find Nelsen Audio to be great place to work."

"I have worked for The Nielsen Company for about 8 years and have seen a small decline in employee morale since the company became public a couple of years ago. It has become difficult to move up unless you are willing to relocate and the compensation is favorable to the employer. The frown on overtime and the bottom line are the performance numbers. Great entry level position but the position is designed to get you out and get someone else in your position for less pay."

"Nielsen is a great company to work for. People are nice and genuinely interested in professional success of others. They have a lot of resources which help in career building all along. There are a lot of opportunities and cross-functional teams to explore and move on."