The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Nielsen in Feb 2012
Interview
I was first contacted by the director who had the position open and we did a phone interview. Our conversation lasted about 45 minutes. I got the interview as a result of being referred. A second interview (by phone) was set up to talk with two of the director's managers for nearly an hour. It was a business casual type of interview, with a lot of room to discuss the position, Nielsen, the director's management sytyle, etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One interviewer picked a situation I described on my resume which dealt with picking up the ball and finishing a project that had been overdue by a year. He asked me how I managed to get the project done in such a short time period when my predecessor had failed.
The process started with an initial HR discussion, followed by a hiring manager discussion round and then a technical round. After that, there was a round with the Engineering Leader, and the final stage was another hiring manager round, which included a live test exercise.
The recruiter set up the interview with the hiring manager. Had a great conversation with her and then had a second interview with the head of the team. Spoke with the recruiter and the role had a lot of applicants with similar experience and timelines and was not selected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Experience in Stakeholder Management internationally
A very comprehensive and detailed interview process. Friendly environment that doesn’t make interview feel like an interrogation. Company deals with big data and hence having some data based knowledge will be helpful
Project Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Nielsen with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 58% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Project Manager roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 21 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Nielsen overall takes an average of 24 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Nielsen as a Project Manager according to 21 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 35%
One on one interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 12%
Skills test: 10%
Background check: 10%
Personality test: 6%
Presentation: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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