Wiley reviews

Lots of bad behavior, even teetering on abusive, with no repercussions. Terrible communication and lots of forced classes, etc. Forced over 100 people to a "Sales Kickoff" event in LA in the summer of 2022, resulting in a super-spreader event. Employees were dispersed to other countries and states sick (as instructed, they were to leave immediately if they did not yet have a fever) and then were given no compensation for hotel rooms they needed to quarantine when they got home (many people had unvaccinated very young children or elderly family members they could not put at risk). The company had to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the SKO event, of which there is enormous social pressure to go, but would not help employees when they needed it most. This was really horrible to see. They are having it again this year despite being on a hiring freeze and not allowing sales people travel "for budget reasons" since the company supposedly mismanaged their money for the past few years. It seems like it can be hard to move to different departments. You manager will find out early in the process and can easily block you from leaving the team. You will also have very little bargaining power, if any, when it comes to increasing compensation, so ask for as much as you can get on hiring--beyond that it is based on annual reviews, and it is all but impossible to get one indicating that you excelled in your role (which I was told directly) even if you go above and beyond your role. I was shut down just when asking for parity with a new colleague who did not have more experience and whom I trained.

This is really difficult for me to write, as I used to be one of this company’s biggest cheerleaders. I grew my career with this company, and I am grateful for that. However, something has shifted in the culture in recent years and it’s not the place it used to be. The constant redundancies are exhausting, and everyone is just waiting for their turn. Redundancies are no longer announced (as there are far too many of them), so you usually find out that a person is gone when you try to email them. Those left behind are simply expected to do more with less, even though all those people are already working ridiculous hours to get the work done. No attempt is made to actually look at the business model, and the decision makers who should ultimately be held accountable seem untouchable (the same goes for those exhibiting toxic work behaviours). The LinkedIn marketing and the reality are very different. I can count on one hand the number of people I knew who could actually take ‘Happy Fridays’… the rest of us knew that we’d be made to feel guilty for taking them, or that we’d be making our workload even worse. Now that I’m out, I’ve realised how much happier I can be elsewhere. On the plus side, this place prepared me for literally anything that comes my way in the future. I feel awful for those left behind to somehow get the work done with the limited resources they have left, while trying to still believe in it all.