Very little technical knowledge. First guy just wanted to chat about resume and was very nice. Second guy looked very stern, like he got dragged out of the office for the interview and was not pleased. Asked a few questions regarding what I knew. Just unfriendly and did not seem to care at all. I didn't want the job very much even before the interview, but after the interview, I would have turned down the job if they offered it to me. Gave off an air of being snooty, haughty, and snobby for the company in general.
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Just mainly interested in leadership and behavioral questions.
A smooth interview process, mainly consisting of DSA. Had only one technical round and no HR round, was given medium DSA questions of strings and stack. Also was asked about my projects and their tech stack.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Nielsen (Gurgaon, Haryana) in May 2025
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Easy, asked me very basic things. I was asked to tell about my project. Then, we moved on to some easy DSA questions. Then, the basic OOPs questions were asked.
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Finding the largest substring with non-repeating characters.
it started with a phone interview, then an assesment with the recruiter and a manager after which a final interview would decide whether the role I applied for is given to me. All in all a pleasent experience
Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Nielsen with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Internship roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 15 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 Internship according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 21%
Presentation: 16%
Group panel interview: 16%
Phone interview: 16%
Drug test: 16%
Other: 5%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
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