The Nielsen Company Employer Reviews

The job itself is pretty cool. You get to watch TV and get paid for it! Writing consumer marketing surveys could be tedious at times but your ever changing schedule makes it interesting and keeps you on your toes. Management on the other hand reduces the level of productivity with their lack of communication, time spent in the office, and lack of o=understanding – more... of what the employees actually do. Because of that and the late night hours, the job has a revolving door. – less

Our programing positions were abolished after we were presented with mandatory training of people from India to replace us.

I loved working for Nielsen. I got to Travel the country (all expenses paid) great pay great people. NOthing bad to say. But I was ready to get off the road anyway! Not really a position for someone who has kids. I traveled a good bit of the year in my particular position..

Ok place to work. Nice people, but people are a little dry. Not much direction or proper training. Can be boring at times.

While the team members are great, there is a clear lack of leadership throughout the organization. There is little trust for lower level management, which leads to slow decision making, poor culture, and no desire to excel in a position

• Determined advertisement groups for 4A companies and grouped 2000 groups of data
• Supported colleagues to training clients how to use the data tool.

Lots of regional travel. Home office. Very autonomous position. It is very rewarding. Although having a home office means your always at work. Management was tolerable but constantly changing. The good managers out-shined the bad ones though. Best part of the job was the pay, good salary with potential for huge bonuses. Hardest part was passing the – more... intensive training school. Didn't see co-workers too much, no problems there. – less

I work with a bunch of dedicated, talented people. The management is good and cooperative. It's a nice work place.

Is very fun to work at the Nielsen Company. Has a very young and friendly environment. Most of the offices will have a break room and own rules. Is a very fun company to work for.

Have to account for every minute of work-electronically tracked. Do have a company car if full-time but can not really use it for personal even though you pay for it. Have to meet set targets or you will be harrassed daily. Only can make bonus if exceed quota which is hard as you have to rely on installers. Not much management support, upper management – more... has no clue about the rep's job. Company constatntly trying to cut costs and lays off are the norm. Rarely see co-workers not much of a team even though management acts like there is. It is cold calling a lot of nights and weekends. A lot of driving. Best part of job is being able to work own schedule even though you have to work all the time. Are expected to answer phone and emails 24/7. If you take time off you still need to meet your regular numbers so you are always worried about your job. – less

This job equipped me with many valuable skills. I started in their call center and moved up to the marketing department. There is plenty of space to grow within the company

Nielsen is a great company that suffers from being decentralized in its services. If there could be a true one voice atmosphere in my particular office, it would be great. That said, I know other offices that are very "one voice" oriented. All and all, it depends on what client and vertical you are assigned to. Due to attrition causing extra work in – more... my particular team, my experiences my be biased. – less

• Efficiently helped summarize and process data with SPSS and constructed regression models; estimated parameters by employing marketing research tools (e.g. Correlation Adjustment, Decomp)
• Took leading role among interns and new employees during training sessions; regularly ranked as the top 5 out of 35 interns in modeling and received a full-time – more... offer
• First and only intern to participate in P&G US project; outputted the presentation documents for the clients; communicated with P&G US team via conference calls – less

Worked here over 20 years. This used to be a fantastic company with great co-workers, opportunity for advancement, and good company culture. Then private equity took over and there's only lay offs and outsourcing, and loss of job security. Retired now and watching former coworkers very unhappy. One of the best companies to work for is now a very unhappy – more... place to work. – less

Used to be a great company to work for. Since 2009 things have changed. Everyone is worried about losing their job including management. Nothing is done about resolving issues. Many issues with data due to software development in India by TCS that does not have much knowledge about the business. Pretty sad. Analysts spend many long hours on the phone – more... trying to resolve production problems working with IT. My advice to you is find a job elsewhere.

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People are nice but if your looking for stable hours this is not the place.

Working out of the SF office for the Telecom group, things have really gone downhill. Most of the Telephia employees are gone as the cut-throat Nielsen culture has taken over. Not a bad place to start your career but expect to work very long hours with minimal recognition. There are much better places to work.

A great place to work, posting growth year on year.

Working through making true integration of assets a reality.

This is a nice company to work for. This is a geographically diverse company with a lot of potential.

Not much chance for advancement. On the phones all shift. Be prepared to be cursed at, and don't take it personal. The co-workers are great people to work with. The hardest part is the rude people you encounter on the telephones.