Now that they are firing everybody and moving to those Low Cost Countries (with low-cost work force having access to lot's and lot's of private data from US markets, etc) they are more than ever active in sites like LinkedIn. It is disgusting how they are trying to downplay this through social media. Hopefully markets will notice and let this sh---y company die the death they deserve!
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“No kidding. They can start with my department. These people are so passive aggressive and operate with a crab in the pot mentality. I can’t wait for either them or me to be laid off. They are some of the least competent coworkers I’ve ever had but are still here because of nepotism. It’s no wonder this company is going under.”
100%. There was a picture shared recently on the Gracenote Share and Connect chat space with 8 managers and leaders on the Gracenote side sitting around a round table, and when I saw it I wanted to pu-e in my mouth.
The most incompetent 8 “leaders” on the face of the planet, with most everyone looking like they’ve gained 50+ pounds over the last year.
What stress and nepotism will do to you.
"They're cutting all the Nielsen Content Link network analysts (except 4 senior analysts) and sending their roles to India!"
Congrats to the all of the Analysts involved for getting a life upgrade. Now get your bowl of popcorn ready and watch the company run itself further into the ground.
Heard Nielsen will be replacing it's corporate logo containing four triangles with one containing a single camel in the middle. Has anyone heard the same?
They're cutting all the Nielsen Content Link network analysts (except 4 senior analysts) and sending their roles to India!
Outrageous! Disgusted.....they don't know anything.
“There are A LOT of folks in the organization that deserve to be laid off - including most of the managers and leadership clowns under the Gracenote side of the company”
No kidding. They can start with my department. These people are so passive aggressive and operate with a crab in the pot mentality. I can’t wait for either them or me to be laid off. They are some of the least competent coworkers I’ve ever had but are still here because of nepotism. It’s no wonder this company is going under.
Right now I’m watching the best managers and teams get cut, while the bullies get to stay. The incompetent managers who even got pulled from projects for fu--ing them up, are still safe. Managers who caused lost revenue and never took ownership for their mistakes, are still safe. The managers who think managing is arguing and making decisions without proper research behind the decision and ignoring advice from peers, are safe. The ones who constantly destabilize departments with constant reorgs just to look busy but products still aren’t going to market faster, are safe.
It seems to me that decisions to cut are based on job role and not performance, so low performers will stay if they’re not in a capacity the overlords deem not important enough to maintain as is. And the overlords are willing to risk blowback on the transition and even failure because that role is just not important to them. Anyone related to customer service, quality, analyzing data, even client facing roles, engineering positions they think are junior or average skilled, those jobs are getting cut all around me (and i’m cut too end of Q2) but some real boneheads are staying.
As far as what cuts they’ll do by end of year, who knows. I am not even sure their most skilled developers and product people are ultimately safe. I suspect if they do stay, their roles will transition to managing off shore teams and teaching them everything, while getting the blame when things go ti-s up.
And, they’ll cut Indian team new hires who under perform as well and then departments have to start all over with new Indian based hires only who will be left to train them, by that point. One lone person in the States or Europe (or wherever) can’t do it all. Plus, the expectations on these Indian based teams is extremely high with unrealistic goals, unrealistic time lines for success, and is setting them up for failure as well. I’m not sure these new folks understand they’ll be chopped in an eye blink so maybe chill out trying to mass add people on Linkedin and instead focus on your job now and learn all you can from your trainer or you won’t last either.
The plan to do this is completely nonsensical and pi-s poor.
It’s a no win situation for everyone.
It’s a problem for EU countries too. Some EU locations have been notified via their work councils that layoffs are coming.
Finally some common sense! I myself basically work for a team on the EU lead by the worst micro-manager I have ever seen. Over time I only feel more and more alienated. They took the project we built over the years from us and it is now their own, they do whatever they feel like doing and nobody says a word because there's a culture of "a-s kissing" and "pure toxicity" inside this team, it had led to several people leaving already.
That's the problem with the illusion of power, some people just can't handle it and they only do damage when they get some. Talent can be found anywhere and there's great talent in this company (either India, EU or the US), I just hope they choose the mangers wisely because they are whom can break or make a team.
I won't be here to watch the future of Nielsen but, I hope they are able to survive and regroup under one flag instead of teams being siloed under incompetent leadership.
“It’s a problem for EU countries too. Some EU locations have been notified via their work councils that layoffs are coming.“
There are A LOT of folks in the organization that deserve to be laid off - including most of the managers and leadership clowns under the Gracenote side of the company, with (many) residing overseas. Would be more than happy to see that come to fruition.
The normal day to day people are (mostly) wonderful folks with some exceptions of course, but regardless will be happy to see everyone heading to higher ground and more prosperous avenues versus the sinking ship called Nielsen.
It’s a problem for EU countries too. Some EU locations have been notified via their work councils thatlayoffs are coming.
The global talent pool su-ks. Nielsen has been offshoring for years and only in the US is it a problem. Off shore talent is cheaper and more agile/ educated for repeatable roles. Don’t blame them, blame the lack of leadership, of change, of proactivity, of shareholder greed. Not those in India or anywhere else.
Tbh I now feel indian counterparts are smarter than us. They know what to prioratize in life. They give their bare minimum to company and that's how it should be in this case. If anything, I have learnt a life lesson from them.
It truly is. I have been deflecting the "requests to connect" from at least 5 to 10 offshore workers weekly as I have no interest in entertaining professional connections from these McDonalds level workers taking our US jobs due to being their cheap labor selves.
Have also distanced myself from the arrogant US colleagues training them - most of which are new hires out of college not knowing any better.
They think they're special though doing the dirty work of the company, and will learn their fate once they train their own replacements. Sad to see the company and managers stooping to such low levels now and leading them down the path of sla-ghter, for others and (eventually) themselves.
Seriously can't wait to be done with this Nielsen clown show, and looking forward to my severance.