Elsevier reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,190 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 2,190 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
1.0
Feb 14, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible work schedule, good amount of PTO plus sick time and paid volunteer days. On site cafeteria. Health, Vision, and Dental coverage; on site flu shots annually. Intelligent and friendly employees for the most part. Good training for new employees.

Cons

When I first started it was pleasant, people liked their work and had some autonomy on projects. In the past 3 or so years I was there it became increasingly unpleasant. Employee surveys are given by management yearly, they talk about the results and never take any action to make improvements. Constant reorganization since about 2013. New management brought in to clean house; experienced personnel passed up for management positions. If your job can be outsourced, it probably will be eventually. Low employee morale, pay on the low end and little upward mobility. Due to staff reductions, the workload became increasing unmanageable and continued to increase making quality suffer and putting unrealistic expectations on employees. Many employees work through lunches on weekends and long days without pay to meet demands of work, management knows this and allows employees to work overtime "for free."

2.0
Feb 13, 2017

Poor corp culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Could be good for risk adverse people just looking for a stable job.

Cons

Terrible corporate culture, little advancement or development opportunities, inflexible corporate policies and below average pay.

4.0
Feb 9, 2017

Elsevier review

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

all the benefits of a large organisation, e.g. health and safety, pension scheme and international colleagues

Cons

career progression too much based on pre-defined targets and quantifiable target measurements, struggling to reward efforts beneficial to the business which don't fit exactly within remit of these targets or are more difficult to quantify, i.e. it doesn't reward it at all or structure is resistant and slow to do so, perhaps due to multiple management layers, all with their own rigid targets, etc.

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Elsevier Response
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Thank you for your review. Our employees are empowered supported by their managers to take charge of their own careers.
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