Thread regarding Nielsen layoffs

Those that don't leave now stay only because they know they wouldn't be able to get a job like the one they have now anywhere else in the universe.

In Nielsen everybody is a Senior or Staff engineer and it is true that there's very low talent in this company. I mean, why do you think we lost the monopoly we used to have?

Mark Smylie condones racism.

I am keeping my job, am paid well, have great managers, decent work/life balance relative to my income. I can’t predict what it will be like in the future but the company will go public again most likely and that could make things better (ending the steep cost cutting phase.) if you don’t mind working at a place where most people work remotely, sure, consider working at Nielsen. This company has always hired smart people from good to great schools so I would say the C+ student comment is completely false. I have interviewed Nielsen candidates and see the caliber of people we have hired.

“it's an industry of C+ students with A+ personalities“

The people I work with have C+ personalities too. They su-k all around. I wish it was different.

Many legacy employees were making good money. As a software engineer I was overpaid compared to the local market. It was an easy gig for years. During Covid I was hardly working 10 hours/week.

The media/advertising biz generally doesn't attract "talented" people of the highest caliber. Just doesn't pay enough. The ivy league kids go into medical, finance, banking, maybe some sort of tech. As I was once told by a high level manager when I was just graduating college and looking to get into the biz in the early 90s, "it's an industry of C+ students with A+ personalities." I found that to be mostly true, especially on the TV station/publisher side.

Talent doesn’t last long here that’s why the legacy employees are all d-mb as rocks. They’re the only ones who stay forever.