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
3.0
Sep 13, 2016

Publisher review

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Worked alongside some of the smartest publishing professionals in the field. Learned a lot. Great mentors.

Cons

Decisions from senior management place unnecessary administrative burden on publishers. Feedback from publishers is no longer valued or taken into consideration. Publishers are increasingly picking up the slack for work that used to be done by other departments. Salaries are stagnant.

1.0
Mar 17, 2016

Management needs changing

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of good people in the ranks of the company. Good overall vision and strategy.

Cons

Culture is very focused on churning out hundreds of strategy presentations in ever increasing granularity. Year on year there is a need to produce new ideas, but in the end little investment is forthcoming and most are scrapped. Repeated sales re-organisations have led to a lack of continuity and ability to sell our more complex product offerings. In eCommerce and marketing we lag sorely behind competition. The second layer of management under Mobed is shaky at best and under confident.

1.0
Mar 6, 2016

Extremely high turnover / Unfair treatment

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

The company has a decent brand name and quality content.

Cons

Company rests on the laurels of "quality content". The sales group specifically has higher turnover than any other industry, making one question the priorities of upper management, who, continues to promote itself to cover up poor decisions. Aside from personnel issues and unfair treatment, the job titles are are written to justify the improper pay and unrealistic workload. Bottom line, this company is unclear in its focus, appears to be unaware of its outdated business plan, and simply cannot compete with its competitors.

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