The end is near! Get out while you can. - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

2.0
Feb 24, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some truly wonderful people work at Wiley. Great work/life balance, awesome PTO.

Cons

The company has been "transitioning" for 5 years now but there is no end in sight. Upper management simply doesn't know what they're doing, or what the long game is. They reorg several times a year and undo the actions from the previous reorg. People leave and aren't replaced - that work is just shoved onto the team members who are left. No financial investment being made in the businesses tied to print, but those teams still have numbers to hit, books to publish, and authors to woo.

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