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GE or Nielsen?

• hga 13y ago
  Nielsen.
  • mathattack 13y ago
    Can you share more on why it's a bad place to work? They seem to be in a hot area now - consumer products data.
    • hga 13y ago
      Well, it's more of an impression than an informed opinion, but if you're interested use your favorite search engine with, say, Nielsen india outsourcing to start with. I should also emphasize from hard, personal experience that how "hot" the area(s) a company is working in is pretty much orthogonal to whether you really want to work for them. Especially a company with such an established brand name and cash cows, which can allow a whole lot of awfulness without killing the company, at least for a while. I mean, for about half their IT staff it was a terrible place to be in 2007-8 when they were laid off, but not before training their non-resident Indian replacements. Or to put it another way, IT isn't a respected part of the company, obviously viewed as a cost center. Really try to avoid those sorts of outfits if you can afford it. And their CEO loves stack ranking ... surely that's enough to cool enthusiasm prior to carefully examining the company (e.g. check out the Ask The Headhunter approach).