Elsevier reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,184 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 2,184 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
3.0
Aug 1, 2017

Exceptional Content with Poor Leadership

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Pros

Excellent content, trusted brand, and experienced editorial staff.

Cons

Much of Upper Management is out of touch with their employees, and customer markets. They want to apply business rules from their MBAs, without deep knowledge of variances need: i.e. access models, pricing, and contracts, to all of the global customer markets. In final few years, I saw incompetence and underperformance, as well as disrespect, tolerated. Customer experience and satisfaction are no longer high priority.

2.0
Apr 25, 2017

Off to Asia we go

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Pros

there weren't many. You were a number. A stat. A way to get the company trained to send work over seas

Cons

use you to train the over seas teams then its out the front door!

2.0
Jan 5, 2016
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Pros

Brand name of company and journal prestige, nice people, new offices, great content

Cons

Terrible pay for london, very stingy company and benefits for the low ranks, inflexible and old fashioned publishing models, bureaucratic, too many managers, very british and non international hiring and promotions, ratrace for too many qualified editors but few positions

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