Wiley reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(2,178 total reviews)

Matthew Kissner

60% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Wiley has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,178 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wiley 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
Aug 13, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Can't speak for others, but I feel I am handsomely compensated. Great work/life balance, flexibility, location, professional/no-nonsense work environment with minimal distractions, insurance & benefits are pretty good. I think issues and frustrations are on account of senior and director-level management more so than middle management or even executive-leadership. In my opinion the new CEO is making concerted efforts to communicate with the boots on the ground to 'the best of his ability'. Middle management does seem to have a much more accurate grasp on the real issues at hand and should be included in more conversations though.

Cons

More PTO than I know what to do with (wish they'd pay me out the unused time), management in some areas is cliquey and political which can lead to resentment (opposite of what they seem to think they're achieving). Company in general is GRAVELY understaffed; I was surprised to see people in areas like finance being designated by management to handle things like building security or general responsibilities that couldn't possibly have been in their original job description...I am awaiting the next restructure so I can add "emptying trash cans" to my resume :)... So yeah, there's really not much "fat left to trim" from headcount; only exception being some areas of content production. Company seems to have completely lost sight of everything that made them great and is seriously neglecting their customers. Customers have finally caught on and are fed up with Wiley--it'll be impossible for reps to win back their business with all of these grandiose digital plans once they're "done" with Wiley. It feels like there's no one actually employed anymore to service the customer's needs; kind of akin to a sit-down restaurant--which may have great food and ambiance--but has zero waitstaff, so the customer just sits there waiting til they're fed up, leave, and blacklist the whole place altogether (if that makes sense).

1.0
Sep 19, 2024
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The people I worked alongside everyday were great, individual work tasks were not too hard, my manager seemed at times like she was genuinely trying to help me

Cons

Where to begin? Severely underpaid for the same work because of the state I lived in. Layoffs and restructuring galore. I was consistently producing quality work when given adequate time but they took our team from 12 people down to 7 with no reduction in workload and then our journal saw a 30% uptick in submissions. This is a company that talks a big game about diversity, equity, and inclusion, but at the end of the day I know nearly a dozen queer, BIPOC and/or disabled workers who have either been fired, laid off, or quit because of how terrible Wiley treated them. I was fired for performance reasons, which is technically accurate given I was failing to meet the lofty standard put upon me. I received a warning for "using too much unscheduled PTO", when I had to use that PTO for work-related panic attacks. I have reason to believe that my outspokenness about this and other issues was part of the reason I was let go. In summary: save yourself the heartache.

2.0
Jan 12, 2024

Promotion roadblocks at senior levels if you're not white.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great co-workers and team. Fairly good comp and benefits at around the industry average. Good learning opportunities available.

Cons

Racism present throughout the organization if you're not white, specially at senior management level. Verbal and written complaints to senior management within the People Org disappeared into thin air and no action was taken. No changes were visible even after a few months had passed. Personal promotion roadblocks became clearly visible thereafter. Not much DE&I can do when the biggest perpetrators sit at ELT and ELT+1 level. Also disappointed in the other individuals that sit in leadership positions with full visibility over these situations, yet choose to look the other way and do nothing, even if they themselves are not overtly racist.

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