Awful culture, uninspiring leaders, career suicide - Software Engineer Wiley Employee Review

1.0
Jan 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Decent vacation days, benefits. Good place if you want to see out until retirement and not be accountable to anything.

Cons

Awful management, awful culture ( blame everyone else, not my problem) , no accountability. Aggressive and bullying middle managers. Not a place to learn anything. Most people completely demoralized, with little or no respect to most management, waiting for better opportunities. Completely not diverse - almost exclusively middle aged Indian men.

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Pros

Nice coworkers and managers, work-life balance, smart people and industry, opportunities to grow skillset. If you volunteer for opportunities, you will be supported and will learn a lot about the industry.

Cons

Pay and hybrid office work

2.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits for publishing.

Cons

Once of the most toxic work environments I've ever worked at. Upper management tears editors down if you are not a favorite. Favorites are chosen by metrics that do not exist, and are subjective and arbitrary. Wiley is losing money because brilliant, young editors leave due to no support and toxic work environments. Wiley Trade is essentially a hybrid publisher. Author's put a lot of money into their book -- too much. There is very very little marketing and publicity support for authors. But they brand as more than there actually is. All in all a very sad place to work and sad for authors.

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