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      4.0

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (2,182 total reviews)

      Kumsal Bayazit

      91% approve of CEO

      76% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.5

      Work/Life balance

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      Elsevier has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,182 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
      Apr 12, 2019

      Toxic

      User experience
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very liberal work-from-home policy, generous vacation (for US :)), convenient downtown location.

      Cons

      Almost zero top-down transparency about strategy and rationale makes any sort of roadmap planning almost impossible. If you have more than 1-2 sprints (2-4 weeks) of visibility into your work or product backlog, you're in an unusual situation. The Commercial (Sales) team dominates Tech, UX and even Product and makes arbitrary promises to customers to achieve monetary quarterly sales goals, which are paramount. It's basically a custom/bespoke software development agency masquerading as a product company.

      3.0
      Mar 3, 2018

      Not for the ambitious at heart

      Marketing director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible work environment and very pro work/life balance and family. Working from home/remotely is generally acceptable. Health benefits are comprehensive but the costs have been increasing significantly every year. It’s a culturally diverse staff. The company is very committed (in theory) to helping advance STM. It’s a great place if you aren’t the ambitious type, like to fly under the radar, and want to put your career on cruise control.

      Cons

      Pay isn’t competitive and it is a very matrixed organization so things move a glacier pace and rumors and re-orgs happen all the time. The systems we rely on to get things done are legacy, band-aided and don’t talk to each other. On top of having to spend all day working on “stone tablets” and reports no one knows what to do with, many departments are under resourced and forced to use tools and rely on processes that do not work for their specific customer needs (e.g., what works for researchers doesn’t work for clinicians). Finally, you will be expected to work on a laptop that is older than you.

      4.0
      Jan 22, 2018

      Professional Management

      Operations manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Management open to ideas and innovation

      Cons

      Frequent changes in Technology landscape

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      Elsevier Response
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      Thank you for your review. At Elsevier, we have a real commitment to innovation and quality. Elsevier's undying urge to always do better means we constantly strive to understand our customers’ problems so that we can create truly transformative products and solutions. Tech itself is constantly evolving.
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