Elsevier reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,188 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 2,188 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
2.0
Oct 11, 2019

Lost itself

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Pros

Few peer coworkers and others had worked with. Glad a few of them are still there to hopefully pull Elsevier through their struggles.

Cons

Corporate games, lack of mission, lost mission to put out quality products before taking to market and using customers to express their pain points.

2.0
Aug 12, 2019

No one's in charge

Recommend
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Pros

401k match is unprecedented. PTO is liberal.

Cons

Complete disconnect between Sr. Mgmt and the 'boots on the ground'. Sr. Mgmt is too busy micro managing instead of communicating strategy and goals to get there. Cost savings opportunities are 'suggestions' and people are laid off instead of working smarter. Everything is ambiguous...and VPs are afraid to put a stake in the ground. People are not rewarded for successes. They bring in new people who try implementing things that didn't work just a couple years prior....No transfer of knowledge.

1.0
Apr 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

I enjoyed the work I did, it was just overwhelming in volume and made me ill.

Cons

Long hours and neverending workload. This company has shocking attitudes towards mental health. If you can't handle 12+ hour days, you are considered not good enough and discouraged from opportunities for advancement. But you will be sent endless emails about mindfulness seminars. Budget cuts at Elsevier are undermining the quality of the product. Elsevier only cares about making money. Jobs are poorly paid compared with other publishing companies. Hotdesking (which means they won't pay for enough desks, so you might end up working in an unsuitable environment). Apparently health and safety doesn't apply to Elsevier.

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