Elsevier reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,189 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 2,189 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
Jun 11, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good location next to a train station

Cons

- bad coffee (like the one in hospital waiting rooms) - proper coffee => doesn't exist, you must buy it yourself - no snacks, soft drinks, nibblies.. - no pens, paper, notebooks, office supplies, cables etc - no mugs or cups to take water to one's desk - no bathroom supplies, no tempos or tampons - company data is all over different stacks, extremely slow in getting access for work reasons - took 4-5 months to get a Tableau license - no onboarding - no in lieu manager when one is missing - no assigned desks; a standup desk takes 5 months to get from request moment on - no ergonomic chair, a process for requesting one doesn't exist (in NL) - Facilities is not educated in much ( i requested ergonomic support, they asked why i was employed at all if i needed a standup desk/proper ergo chair). - Pay seem to have no relation to function or title, but seniority and negotiation skills

4.0
Mar 6, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Technology department allows staff the freedom to grow. Teams are given sufficient autonomy to direct their own technology choices.

Cons

It's still a big company with big company bureaucracy

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Elsevier Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your review. We are known for providing the autonomy necessary for our employees to learn and grow. By now, you must be aware of our efforts and focus on speed in everything we do. A global organization of our size will always try to get things right the first time. For some, this may feel slow or bureaucratic. However, Elsevier is doing an incredible amount of work to get the balance right.
2.0
Jan 24, 2019

Too much management & too corporate, poor health benefits

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of smart people and people trying to do innovative work in healthcare tech

Cons

Poor healthcare benefits and bad PTO policy. The company seems to seriously struggle with too many people in management positions (I swear there are like 200 VPs on the org chart), too much politics, too much time spent trying to portray a startup image instead of actually acting like a startup image, etc. There are too many people vying to decide what work should be done as opposed to focusing on the work that is being done on the ground.

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