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
1.0
Apr 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* Amazing Teams (intelligent, pleasant to work with, etc) * Seriously cool environment (very laid back) * Great direct managers

Cons

* Very political. Say the wrong thing and you'll get fired "for no reason" even if it's protected speech. * Every year, they lower the average salary of their software engineers. It used to be over 100k in Stl, but now it's under 100k in Philly which has 30% higher cost of living. * They shut down a branch every year, laying off everyone there. This includes Saint Louis and Atlanta. Eventually, they'll outsource everything to India (they're in the process of it and about 1/4 there) * A director rounded up a bunch of people he just laid off into a room to promote some people he hadn't laid off and talked about growth in the company to room half full of people he laid off a week earlier. * Was terminated by the director (while my manager was on vacation in Mexico) the day after I gave my two weeks notice. If you're going to quit, don't give them notice. * Director liked to blame predecessor for everything even though he had been gone a while. * Was brought on a 4 months before they announced they were closing the Saint Louis branch

5.0
Apr 9, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Big workload expectation on sales reps and need more admin assistance to relieve sales from admin tasks so they can improve sales performance

Cons

Great opportunity to contribute to the organization, vAlues sales input and regularly engages sales on understanding product needs to respond to market

3.0
Jan 8, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

10 Holidays, 10 sick days, 3 personal days, 15 vacation days (after 3 years). Flexible Summer Schedule

Cons

Low pay, low incentive, merit raises maximum of 2% regardless of performance.

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