Organizational Chaos, Constant Layoffs - Senior Product Manager Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
5 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The remote work in the US is great, and the truly flexible PTO is good. They do seem to care about DE&I and inclusion.

Cons

Since the acquisition by private equity in 2021, it's been a long slide downhill with constant layoffs. They have offshored the majority of the staff to India and Mexico, and are focused on cutting costs with no clear strategy. The technical teams seem to trying to turn Nielsen into an AI first company, which is having a detrimental effect on panel and data quality. So many wonderful and talented people have been laid off. Raises and promotions were also indiscriminately paused with no clear communication on when they would return.

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5.0
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Pros

Was a great job with great benefits

Cons

No cons at all honestly

1.0
16 Apr 2026
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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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