Wiley reviews

It's a pretty large corporate environment, so it can feel a little dry and boring sometimes. Also, like most publishers, the career growth can be slow. I lucked out early on, but if I had stayed at the company I don't know if i would have advanced again for a long time.

Mediocrity thrives at Wiley. Corporate culture is rigid and suffocating. Too many incompetent directors and managers. The IT is fragmented and different groups do not collaborate together resulting in too much wasted time, money and resources. Managers of different groups act sometimes like warlords jealous of each other and fighting for their turf. Projects take forever to complete. It is easy to get into conflicts with others just by simply trying to do your job. Too much bureaucracy. Even simple tasks could drag for long time because of senseless procedures.. Too much politics. It is more important who you know than what can you do. Although Wiley offers many paid days off the poor management could create frequent, prolonged emergencies and stressed out people. Last year one big and long project ended in a complete fiasco. Surprisingly to many the same managers responsible for the disaster are running other projects. There is no place for development or advances. Management promotes buddy culture and are not interested genuinely in your opinions. You don't really get credit for the work you've done. Needless to say the morale in IT is extremely low. Currently the IT is going through restructuring and it is likely most of it will be outsourced to reduce operational and management cost. Unfortunately this also means Wiley will lose many talented people which would probably make its current problems even worse.