Elsevier reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,189 total reviews)

Kumsal Bayazit

90% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Elsevier has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,189 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Elsevier employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
5.0
Aug 24, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

A Breeding Ground for Dinosaurs! Just love this place how they pamper their employees. Very employee centric company with great professionals to work along with. Very good culture driven company which provides excellent opportunities to individuals to grow. Opportunity to work Interdepartment and get placed on desired roles through internal placement was awesome. Even if you are placed in a wrong profile during your initial stage of your career, you can still correct it by attending internal interviews and getting placed on your dream profile.

Cons

Indianized management - During the start of the organization, it had great work culture (Dutch) and we had many foreign managers (even at the top level) who drive the organization with a lot of values and principles. However, in due course of time, as soon as they left the organization, the organization become more and more Indianized (with Indian managers) who had their own ideologies changed the organization's culture, which was really sad!

1.0
Aug 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good Benefits. Ok Salary. Networking and design.

Cons

Elsevier is cheap. Elsevier doesn't like to spend money. Cheap cheap very cheap pinny pinching cheap. You get what you pay for. They partnered with a non profit to build a data center. They also kept the head quarters in Dayton for LexisNexis instead of moving it to Columbus or NY like Bloomberg Law. The Dayton campus is really run down and dumpy. Even NCR left Dayton. They like to spend the money on acquisitions instead of infrastructure and talent or people. Ohio State University rates higher than University of Dayton or Wright State and they employ a lot of UD people instead of employing Ohio State University or Clemson grads like Emily Thompson who won the Goldwater and the Astronaut Award. University of Michigan rates higher than University of Dayton but so much for talent. They were also not supportive of innovation. The Bitcoin Asic was a big opportunity they missed out on and it cost them 100 million+. They also liked code reviews instead of using the agile model. People would fight in the code reviews.

2.0
Mar 30, 2016

Worker

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, generous vacation time, flexible work hours, paid holidays. Good benefits, generous vacation time, flexible work hours, paid holidays.

Cons

Micromanager, micromanager, micromanager! The culture is very 'Me first', in a 'no matter what you are working on, or what your delivery dates are, drop everything and work on my stuff first.' At Elsevier whoever screams the loudest gets their work done first. Everyone else suffers. This is not a healthy environment.

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