Not a job for the long term. - Membership Representative Nielsen Employee Review

2.0
7 Jul 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work from home, flexibility in daily schedule, company car, laptop, & iphone, medical/dental/life insurance.

Cons

The job itself. Having to drive/battle traffic several hours each day to reach the selected homes, and then try to recruit families to participate in the Nielsen TV Ratings is an inherently dangerous, tedious and frustrating. It entails relentless stalking people at their homes in the hopes of imposing a sales presentation on them about the "benefits" of being a Nielsen family, which are few indeed. In this day and age most people are immediately suspicious, unwelcoming, and put off by having some stranger show up at their home unannounced to solicit participation in an archaic and increasingly irrelevant TV audience measurement service.

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Pros

Was a great job with great benefits

Cons

No cons at all honestly

1.0
16 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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