Elsevier reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,185 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 2,185 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
4.0
Sep 11, 2012

Lots of opportunity, turbulent times...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great opportunity for advancement, large company with many avenues for career advancement, some really great people as colleagues and team members

Cons

Senior management in a shuffle, and it's a tough industry right now, navigating the print-to-electronic customer conversion.

3.0
Aug 28, 2012

Glorified Data Entry

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

European-based company, so benefits and vacation package is stellar.

Cons

Low pay, job is boring...after a year I felt that I had mastered it and became very bored.

2.0
Aug 24, 2012
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

MC Strategies (MCS, R.I.P. 1986-2005) in Atlanta was a great, wonderful home-grown company that thrived prior to being acquired by Elsevier (ELS). The corporate environment was relaxed yet productive. Employees didn't mind putting in extra hours and efforts over and beyond what was required because the then-president, Don Galimore, was a great person to work for. You wanted to do your best and it was never a chore.

Cons

Since Elsevier bought out MCS in 2005, everything has gone downhill from there. Certainly every company's goal is to make money, but ELS does it at the expense of employee morale, to the point that more often than not, employees that stayed became discontent and migrated towards bringing home a paycheck rather than truly enjoying working their hardest for the good of the company. It's counter-productive to browbeat employees into submission who are already more than capable and willing to do the job asked of them. The corporate structure is a joke. Now only the brown-nosers who throw their team members under the bus are the ones getting promoted, and upper management is more inclined to dismiss those who really do the best work and aren't into kissing up.

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