Private equity layoffs and reorg killed design - Recensione dipendente - Design Systems Lead presso Nielsen

2,0
8 mag 2023
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- Solid design system and foundations to build off of - Some good design management still around - Design team is filled with good folks - Solid rebrand in '21

Svantaggi

After private equity bought Nielsen in '22 they laid off about a third of the design staff and re-orged the company into silos. The design system became apart of one silo, which is exactly the opposite of it's intended goal. It's sad to see. I thought the SVP of design was building a really great team (apart from one bad apple) and plan for the organization. That plan seems to be fully lost now. I feel sad that the work I did on the design system will likely be implemented poorly or barely updated as design devolves to the whims of whatever product person is currently speaking. But, we tried. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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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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