Elsevier reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,182 total reviews)

Kumsal Bayazit

91% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Elsevier has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,182 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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4.0
Mar 11, 2018

Lots of exciting work.

Anonymous employee
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Business Outlook

Pros

Real opportunities to help outcomes in Research and Health by developing good products. Using new technologies such as AI, ML & Big Data. Friendly and smart people.

Cons

Sometimes getting agreement to start new things is harder than it should be due to slow decision making processes .

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Elsevier Response
8y
Thank you for your review. At Elsevier, shared decision making or getting agreement is particularly important and takes longer, especially when the decision to be made involves people globally, our values or principles.
1.0
Oct 10, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A big company where you can shape your career. Good infrastructure, many meeting rooms, a gym for people who like to work out.

Cons

But these are the only positive things to say... colleagues are very arrogant, unfriendly and hard to communicate with. They are very anti-social and show no emotion. They think they are social by going every Friday to the nearby pub, but when there, they nervously stare at each saying nothing while holding a bottle of beer. Also, management is VERY INCOMPETENT! They have no skills at all! My managers were too lazy to even complete community college and had no knowledge about the content they are supposed to manage at all. All they did was boss and command everyone around and even treat them as slaves. Colleagues in India were almost litterally treated as slaves and joked about behind their backs, saying things like they are stupid and dumb and are like children which you need to treat harsh. ELSEVIER IS EXPLOITING PEOPLE IN INDIA!! Indians are scared to bring this up to their Dutch colleagues, because of losing their job. Yes, you can shape your career at Elsevier... over colleagues' dead bodies. They give absolutely nothing about your well-being!! Yes, you can work out there and at the same time your subordinates are subjected to slavery. Only the people with no skills, but with an arrogant, sociopathic, authorative attitude will make it there

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Elsevier Response
8y
Thank you for your review. We take these allegations very seriously and will investigate them immediately. At Elsevier, we take great pride in our global diversity. It is a core strength of our company and culture. We expect each of our 7500 employees around the world to treat each other, customers and organizations we partner with, with respect and the utmost professionalism. To help us address the situation, we encourage you to contact Elsevier Human Resources immediately or you may provide information anonymously via the confidential line: http://www.reedelsevierconfidentialline.com/
4.0
Feb 5, 2017

Steady ship in stormy waters

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Elsevier has a lot of smart people, working very hard, doing something they believe in and care about. The resources available to the company, the thought leadership, and the industry leadership are a powerful mix.The transformation to a data and analytics company, in growth markets, is well underway.

Cons

Elsevier has a very academic approach to decision-making that can drown innovation at times. Industry leadership also means the company. There are also a couple of functions that need dragging into the digital age.

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Elsevier Response
8y
First, let us thank you for you work at Elsevier for the past 5 years. Secondly, thank you for leaving this great feedback. We are pleased to hear that we have a lot of smart people including you working at Elsevier. Knowing that you, one of our employees, acknowledged that the resources available to us, the thought leadership, and the industry leadership are a powerful mix for us is fantastic. Regarding our approach to decision making, I am sure that you appreciate the need for us to make several critical decisions in a global business environment. So, careful consideration is often required in some cases. However, we are certain that you must have noticed a change in our approach to decision making since you left this feedback. Carefully moving faster on decisions means staying competitive.
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