Reed Elsevier Group Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – The company has a large global footprint. This opens opportunities to have a career in a lot of different places including telecommuting.

Cons – Those based out of a small regional offices have less exposure to the corporate experience.

Advice to Senior Management – Employees in remote locations especially those in smaller locations have less opportunities for advancement and almost no exposure to corporate.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – great people, great salary, great benefits, very relaxed working environment

Cons – not enough annual raise the last couple of years

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – Lots of training and traveling, simple org structure, nice and brilliant colleagues. competitive wage and holidays. Can be long term if one wants to.

Cons – The work gets redundant after 6 months
extremely hands on, one do all
generally unhappy customer due to stringent commercial practice

Advice to Senior Management – for a company this size stock option would be nice to reward and retain talents or loyal employees, incentives and benefits are not unified

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – - Great mission and contribution to society
- Talented management
- Strong financial results allowing for good compensations
- Very good employee atmosphere

Cons – - Not yet as innovative as we would like it to be
- Not changing as fast as we would like
- You need to find your own opportunities to progress

Advice to Senior Management – The company needs more bold changes
We need to invest more in technology
We need to become more knowledgeable about our customers

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – Wonderful company with a close knit community of employees all working towards a similar goal of delivering a product on time. Each member of the staff knew there responsibilities and understood what made the company tick.

Cons – Pace was always quickened due to time sensitive objectives. Working till the job was completed was always something we had to handle.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow employees to set beforehand a working timeframe when starting a workweek. Once this is established it will beenefit the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – Work is diverse and challenging

Cons – They are outsourcing the software and app development employees

Advice to Senior Management – Cost is not the only solution to being "World Class"!

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – The people are dedicated and committed to excellence
The bonus packages and pension plans are good, better than many of my friend's packages who work for different companies
Diverse businesses present unique advancement opportunities

Cons – Poor communication lends itself to an atmosphere where rumors are rampant
Difficult to break into executive management internally
Lack of cohesiveness across affiliates

Advice to Senior Management – Do more to bring affiliates together to share learnings and best practices.
Periodically share corporate strategy and vision to ensure the employees on the front line have a clear idea of where we're going at a corporate level and not just within their divisions.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Reed Elsevier Group full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The culture was stable and secure.

Cons – The company did not stir innovation.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Reed Elsevier Group full-time for more than a year

Pros – European owned company - 37.5 hr work week! Good balance work/life balance....you aren't working crazy hours which can be a common expectation in the marketing field at other companies. Learning opportunities are readily available in order to promote advancement in your career. Friendly people to work with.

Cons – The salaries are a bit low.

Advice to Senior Management – To keep good workers, salaries need to be a bit more competitive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Reed Elsevier Group full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great benefits, work/life balance. Advancement can happen if you play the politics right and are ambitious. Flexibility allows for internal job switching if an opportunity comes.

Cons – My personal experience was bad because I worked for the American publishing division which was eventually sold off. The division I worked for was in sale mode for nearly four years, and that meant very little investment in technology or business expansion. Overall, the senior management seemed directionless and inaccessible. There was little or no communication between the various divisions.