McGraw-Hill Education Reviews

Pros

Medical Benefits are fantastic at MH...

Cons

Some unfair hiring tactics and salary discrepencies

Advice to Senior Management

Get to be friends witht upper management and you have it made!

Pros

benefits
caring people
people love to share information and teach you.

Cons

better upper leadership needed
difficult to grow career
hires outside more often than promote within

Pros

The people are passionate about making a difference in education.

Cons

Management is headquartered out of NY but headquarters are located in Columbus, OH.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend time in all locations. People who work in Chicago or Easton rarely see the executive management team.

Pros

Great colleagues, average compensation, good opportunity for young (but not 40+) people to move up; it's a business and that's all about the bottom line

Cons

My experience was poor leadership and management; constant pressure to do more in less time; leadership used intimidation rather than motivation

Advice to Senior Management

Hire leaders who know how to inspire employees to do their best, rather than demoralize and frighten people into compliance. Fear is not a good motivator for top performance.

Pros

I was satisfied with the salary that I was earning.

Cons

Employees are expected to work lots of overtime.

Pros

-Salary and benefits packages are good.

Cons

-Terrible management. More time is spent on internal turf wars and jockeying for brownie points than actual publishing.
-Turnover is extremely high for a reason. The company is always hiring because anyone with half a soul leaves quickly.
-The atmosphere is deadly, and dead silent.
-People are definitely spying on you.
-Even though salaries and benefits are high compared to elsewhere in the industry, the company takes a limited view when it comes to everything else. The infrastructure, technologically speaking, dates to around 2002 (for example, the company just updated to Office 2007.) Heaven forbid you ask for an e-reader, iPad, or wifi enabled laptop.

Advice to Senior Management

I don't know how you fix this. How can you run a publishing company that doesn't value books and reading? How can you hire managers and executives who don't love books? This is an industry in flux and requires energy, passion, commitment to work. If it weren't for the backlist this place would never survive.

Pros

Very hands on, they treat you like a member of the team, able to work on real projects that make a difference, the people are Great to work with.

Cons

Unless you eventually want to go into sales for your career path theres not many places you can go with the experience.

Pros

Each re-org shows all of McGraw-HIll gaping holes. In turn eliminating some undesirable staff including management.

Cons

Ive had more bosses than years served at McGraw-Hill. Wanting to be the best is wonderful. Making your staff work 80hours week is not the way to accomplish this goal.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the people and the whispers. Pete Davis is gone for a reason!

Pros

Most employees are very friendly and willing to help you learn the ropes.

Cons

Can be hard to communicate with upper management.

Advice to Senior Management

Although you're busy try to pay more attention to employees.

Pros

The benefits and salary were satisfactory, but only after I pressured management to hold themselves to their own pay scale.

Cons

While the company projects a modern, innovative approach to publishing, actual practice falls short. Our group began with high hopes to transform some key functions through technology, but found ourselves thwarted by endless bureaucracy and rigid, unreceptive management. Management style is needlessly autocratic, and it doesn't end at company politics; they actually lecture employees on their political views. We found it hard to excel under this stifling environment.

Advice to Senior Management

It begins and ends with Terry McGraw III; he obviously sets the tone for the whole company. I could mention the usual like respect employees who speak up, reward initiative, and embrace change.