Wiley reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(2,180 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 2,180 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
Nov 14, 2014

As one of the hundreds of former employees dismissed last year...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

For me, the pros of working at Wiley were my boss (a very supportive person who would do anything to help you out professionally and personally); my coworkers (a great crew of hardworking people); and the job itself. I liked my job very much but the experience in the Wiley office was another thing (see Cons).

Cons

Once it looked like digital was the way the publishing industry was going, it just seemed that Wiley was something of a deer in headlights. They just didn't know which way to turn and worse, didn't prepare their employees before releasing them into a highly digitized workforce for which they were woefully undertrained to compete for jobs. Also, Wiley loves to boast about its supposed work/life balance, but from my experience this perk is only for a favored few. In my entire time at Wiley, many colleagues and I, who had proven ourselves as good workers who delivered work well and on time, were not permitted to work from home on a consistent basis for even one day a week. This, even though the work was of a type that could be done remotely. The other part I disliked about working there was how secretive management was.

2.0
Nov 13, 2013

No longer the place to be...

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Pros

The people, hands down. Intelligent, hard-working, helpful. My first 10 years at Wiley were idyllic--but I know now that was largely due to the group I worked in and my manager. It was collaborative, fun, and everyone worked toward a common goal.

Cons

The "restructuring and reinvestment" means that many talented, experienced people are being laid off while more and more "director" positions are created. Large chunks of departments were simply deleted, leaving those employees remaining to hold up a staggeringly heavy load.

1.0
Feb 23, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

None, none for 2023 or 2024

Cons

Massive lay offs, poor communication, baffling decisions made by senior people in the USA regarding UK & European teams, offices without any thought for the people it concerns. Stagnant pay. Poor compensation. HR is all outsourced so every request is met with a no, with no reasons given. Little room for career advancement - particulary if you aren't in the USA. Morale at an all time low - and that's saying something. I wouldn't recommend anyone joins this company. Lot's of pale, stale men at the top taking big salaries and achieving very little. Lack of women in senior positions in 2024 is now becoming embarrassing. Lack of leadership, lack of innovation, lack of ideas. You could pick up a strategy textbook from the 1990s and see where leadership is getting their plan from. Good people leaving in their droves, and more to follow.

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