Wiley reviews

As others have noted, Wiey has not adjusted to the digital publishing landscape. The WileyPLUS 5.0 failure was predicted by nearly everyone involved in the project. Colleagues pointed out the multitude of issues to management very early on and their concerns went unheeded. It was surreal. Those who kept the project going went unacknowledged. Wiley management also blew well over a million dollars on consultants and project managers who had no clue what they were doing and took advantage of the company's "work/life balance". Wiley has some great employees left but there are also many apathetic people and those who just can't keep up with digital growth.

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.