Good pace, professionals. Salaries ok. Still corporate feeling - Senior Software Engineer Elsevier Employee Review

4.0
May 19, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Working with professional and experienced people. The culture of respect between peers; time for personal care with flexible working hours, slow pace, etc. are good for the balance of work/personal time so no much stress and reasonable workload in the daily basis. Develop products for the Science/Healthcare investigation sector can be rewarding. Salaries are ok, just in the market range, what could be in the limit of something positive/negative.

Cons

Difficult and not very much options to promote, so is based in big scales with a lot of sub-levels. Slow pace and few challenges cannot be enough for some people looking for products with more visible impact or a more dynamic environment. After all the corporate feeling is there, with lot of bureaucracy and guidelines.

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Elsevier Response
4y
Thanks for your review.

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5.0
May 11, 2026
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Pros

Industry leader Great benefits Incentive trips Invests heavily in its employees

Cons

Processes can be burdensome and clunky at times

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Elsevier Response
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Thank you for this balanced and thoughtful review. We're glad to hear that our benefits and investment in people are making a positive impact, those are commitments we take seriously. On the process feedback: Leadership is actively reviewing operational workflows, and the advice to listen more closely to employee feedback is something we're holding ourselves accountable to. If you're open to it, we'd encourage you to bring specific examples forward through your team or people and culture contacts. Change is most effective when it's grounded in the real experiences of the people doing the work, and that means you. Feel free to reach out to us at elseviergdrev@elsevier.com to provide more information Thank you for staying engaged and for caring enough to share this. It matters.
3.0
Feb 10, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent benefits, reasonable job security and mobility

Cons

Management is a mess. They are constantly shuffling around leadership and department/reporting structures, and it has serious ramifications on morale and cross-function collaboration. I was a part of a well oiled machine for many years until Elsevier acquired our product and pretty much ruined everything that was great about within 5 years. Their priorities have not aligned with customer needs, and it became increasingly difficult to provide value to our customers. Elsevier provides more roadblocks than solutions from a product management perspective.

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