Imbalance between Sales/Account and Research - Director Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
20 Apr 2011
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Pros

Name recognition flexible work schedule casual atmosphere good/fun coworkers

Cons

low pay relative to work put in terrible benefits depressing work space researchers are relegated to support role for sale/account not enough money put into technology (wasted money on outsourcing tech support, which is pretty useless) tech functions are kept separate, when they should be more integral to research no training for managers who don't know how to handle staff lots of buzz words with no action static roles, where change to other job functions/verticals are discouraged senior management out of touch with day-to-day

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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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