Risky changes.... Not sure where this ship is headed - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Nielsen

3,0
4 apr 2012
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- work for the best clients in FMCG - previously reputable company, still good name on cv - young teams, can feel energized by wind of change..

Svantaggi

- wind of change not likely blowing in the right direction - seems our management mistakingly thinks we are selling sausages or planes rather than demonstrate understanding that people are our asset. yes we sell data, but without the people to make this complex data correct, and then people to explain this data to our clients, we have nothing. - meritocracy system can be fantastic if you are in the right box in the GE talent matrix. However, the process for being assigned into a box is often based on perceptions rather than results. Over the years, I have seen more of a 'PR' culture emerge, where bullshitters with little results behind them can actually self promote themselves closer to 'god' - we have started outsourcing our hearts and souls. Example: The advanced statistician teams that should be the warrants of the designs and validity of our very complex data projection tools have been outsourced... Would you trust a surgeon who operates from a standard manual? - the company doesn't have sustainability (of the business) at heart. All the risky changes make a lot of us think we are on a perhaps sinking ship. We often are in positions of monopoly but that doesn't grant us the right to sell crap data? Or does it?! -The GE management inspired decisions do not necessarily fit our business. Once again, we are selling people (who are selling data), not planes. The GE management team adheres to systems and beliefs that GE itself has abandoned: for example the fast rotation of top leaders who market themselves very well into varying random positions of increasing incompetence... Rather than the promotion and retention of truly talented individuals with deep expertise in their field. GE is moving away from rotating people from aviation to health to xxxx... Because it takes time to learn each of these businesses. But imagine what a group of plane/sausage makers can do in a market research company! Their very understanding of what a client is and want is not the right one!

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5,0
14 apr 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Was a great job with great benefits

Svantaggi

No cons at all honestly

1,0
16 apr 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

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.

Svantaggi

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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