Great name, incredibly disorganised - Associate Client Manager Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
Jul 5, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Big and recognisable name and some really great people - Work with nearly every brand / agency / platform in the market with great exposure

Cons

- Little investment into basic business functions meant completely scrambling every quarter from legal, finance, etc - Targets were set so high every year with little merit reward. - Management complained about a high turnover of staff, rather than looking at the route cause of high turnover. - Promotions based on tenure opposed to ability. Incredibly frustrating when many people have been in the same roles for years and impossible to be upwardly mobile. - So US focused that it is hard to have any scope of a career outside of the US. - Complete chaos after the acquisition with lots of layoffs and even more people voluntarily leaving. - Office culture didn't exist and was completely depressing. - Only very basic benefits, e.g. no Christmas Party, no perks or memberships

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 16, 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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