Elsevier reviews

4.0

78% would recommend to a friend

(2,192 total reviews)

Kumsal Bayazit

91% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Elsevier has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,192 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 Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
3.0
May 13, 2021

Ok company, highly depends on where you work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are pretty good, 401k matching, PTO, annual raises. They've also had a relatively good response to COVID-19, and have been encouraging people to work remotely for as long as possible, while also encouraging people to take mental health breaks and maintain work life balance.

Cons

Depends on where you work. The Philly office is filled with some amazing people who care about their employees and their work culture. I've heard that the culture at the companies who have been acquired by Elsevier (Pittsburgh office, North Andover office) have some major culture adjustments they need to make. The main software engineering manager in Pittsburgh is kinda sexist and racist, but nothings ever been done about it. The folks in North Andover are so old school and unwilling to update their ways, and Elsevier isn't doing much to intervene. They also claim that there are so many easy ways to change your career path (i.e. if you want to switch from software engineering to product or quality), but that's not true. They don't like having people work remotely, so if you work in one place you have to find a job being offered in that location, even though everyone is fully remote due to the pandemic, and ultimately it doesn't allow for easy transition into varying fields.

4.0
Apr 3, 2021

Great

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people, great mission and values. Amazing CEO

Cons

Perceived unfair pay. un-proactive HR

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Elsevier Response
5y
Thank you very much for your review.
5.0
Mar 9, 2021
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible in working from remote (already before Covid) and in letting you take up new skills (Dev, DevOps, Data Scientist)

Cons

None that I can think of. Pace of changes is not fast, but it can be actually a good thing and you do get free personal-development days and hackatons to push your skills, and free Udemy courses to learn them!

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Elsevier Response
5y
Thank you very much for finding the time to leave us your review.
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