McGraw-Hill Reviews

Pros

contribution is appreciated
Empower you to do your best

Cons

work life balance can be difficult at times

Pros

Great environment, friendly, lots of opportunities for learning

Cons

Cautious culture, slow to change

Pros

McGraw-Hill has an outstanding reputation for integrity and continuous market share gains.
A very, very generous benefits package.
Many options to grow one's career.

Cons

McGraw-Hill is a patriarchal, bureaucratic, risk-averse organization.
Favoritism is rampant.
Contrary to how McGraw-Hill would like to be portrayed, there is no work/life balance. When on vacation, one must still be accessible to management.
Timelines are unrealistic.
There's a continuous conflict between getting work done and being political.
There are too many chiefs and not enough indians.

Advice to Senior Management

Walk your talk. Treat each employee with consummate respect. Get rid of some of the management/professional development programs; focus on supporting employees in making work/life balance more realistic and providing training and state-of-the-art tools to employees to support them in meeting REASONABLE deadlines.

Pros

great products and services - do the greater good with supporting educaiton products and business information e.g. JDPA, Platts, S&P

Cons

lack of communication between segments that results in confusion and unnecessary political battles

Advice to Senior Management

improve communication between segments to elimiante duplication in efforts and improve planning to ensure clear understanding and buyin from employees

Pros

There are a lot of individuals with really innovative and creative ideas who are very passionate about ehat they do.

Cons

It is very difficult to implement change. It is such an established organization that change can take months or years to really get traction.

Pros

Great place to build a network. Outstanding benefits in health and work life balance areas. Salaries are okay. Training is good when you get it.

Cons

Gone down hill fast. Technology is out of date. Better you are with politics the more reward you get. The IT org has to many people that moved over from another company with the management and have been put into position because they are "YES" men. Lots of distrust and putting good people in positions that keep them rising to the top with the last reorg. The yearly surveys on employee satisfaction is a joke.

Advice to Senior Management

Do something real or get out. Stop pretending that the company is a Global company because it isn't. MH is a New York company that has other remote office. The fact that the term "remote office" is used at all shows that MC does not believe anyone outside of NYC is worth their time.

Pros

good work life balance, interest in sectors McGraw-Hill plays in

Cons

Slow to action at times

Pros

Very good benefits including a profit sharing programme that accumulates for retirement. Very good respect for work life balance for the employee.

Cons

The culture is stultifying and bureacratic. I would assume that strategic planning goes like this: Should we try something new? No, we failed the last time we tried something new in 1978. Let us hire a consultant to cover our arses and do nothing. Instead of real change, let us spout hollow platitudes about synergy (that does not exist) between the different mismatched businesses in our conglomerate. Along the way, the most senior managment is a black hole for creativity and rules from a position of power and fear. Finance and HR acts as the STASI of the organization.

Advice to Senior Management

Time to break things up. The businesses do not fit together and constantly trying to force them to work together at the expense of solving real problems is a waste.

Pros

Strong learning culture. Lots of guest speakers, courses to take, some free books. Very advanced mentoring program. Good diversity groups and events. Strong sense of purpose in the eductation business.

Cons

Very hierarchical culture. Many out-of-touch senior leaders. Lots of turf battles. Constant cost cutting, lack of investment in appropriate systems and processes. Lots of talk about valuing technology, but actions indicate otherwise. Several people felt that the positions they were hired for were overstated and were disappointed within months of joining.

Advice to Senior Management

Think about the rank and file employees and what the work environment is like for them. Unify the company to act as one -- not compete and work against one another. As a knowledge company, your greatest asset is your people.

Pros

Benefits, book discounts, job stability.

The Hightstown NJ location houses a big piece of the education and construction businesses. Also houses corp accounting. This a plus for someone not wanting to commute into the city.

In NY, you have a location right on top of Penn station for the media and education business and 1221 6th ave for corp headquarters and executive offices. They OWN standard and poors - probably the best place to work in the company for anyone career minded.

Cons

Slacker paradise, not a meritocracy, no extra reward for excellence.

The nj location is a joke, literally looks like a high school. Everything there feels old and dusty. But the cubicles are huge.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on remove under performers, promote hard work, vs old fashion loyalty, and create a new graduate recruitment program to attract new and bright minds