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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2.0
Sep 25, 2015

Good place for brown-nosers

Anonymous employee
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Business Outlook

Pros

Salary, vacation days. Good people at the worker level.

Cons

If you're intelligent, competent, accountable, and creative, you will not succeed here. The company encourages mediocrity, being a yes-man (or woman), and brown-nosing. Independent, creative thinkers need not apply. It's assembly-line work, regardless of your role. Employees and customers are both seen as necessary evils. Don't speak up about inferior products or poor customer service. They have no interest in fixing issues - just silencing you.

2.0
Aug 6, 2015

Acquisitions Editor

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large, prestigious company Excellent legacy product line Opportunity to get large budgets for product development

Cons

Monopolistic control of markets poses ethical issues for employees Deeply dysfunctional organization at all levels---problems emanating from Amsterdam HQ Culture mismatch between global offices (see above) Utter lack of vision for electronic product development--always playing catch up on e-products of all sorts, but especially mobile

3.0
Aug 4, 2015

count on yearly re-orgs

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, stable company, good benefits (but low base salaries)

Cons

Revolving door of senior leadership resulting in almost yearly re-orgs. They pay lip service to innovation but never really change.

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