STEER CLEAR OF WILEY! - Senior Program Manager Wiley Employee Review

1.0
Nov 6, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits and salary, if you're one of those people willing to sell your self-worth for those things.

Cons

Literally everything. Everyone is in the same boat of misery and exhaustion of being overworked, underappreciated, and micromanaged, yet having an opinion will get you fired. There is no room to grow in the company unless you are a male, preferably without children. The jobs themselves require little talent and have become automated and scripted, much like that of a for-profit environment which Deltak used to pridefully rise above. I have never seen a company turn so quickly with such a lack of loyalty to follow suit with the absurd changed.

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