Wiley-Blackwell Reviews

Pros

There's a nice community atmosphere, the work is challenging and interesting, the management team is supportive, and we're given lots of PTO and flexible working hours.

Cons

Room for growth/advancement has come to a screeching halt over the last few years, the benefits package has deteriorated, and vacated positions are absorbed rather than filled.

Pros

-Opportunity to work on lots of interesting journals with some great societies
-Opportunity for growth clearly outlined
-The actual sales work is interesting

Cons

-Sales job with low salary, no commission and a draconian set of rules to follow to get quarterly bonuses
-Unpleasant cubicles
-Office not sufficiently heated in winter - people worked in their coats
-Lots and lots of travel, some with no apparent purpose, such as going to a trade show and having to leave before it begins to go to the next one
-Lacking opportunities for digital sales, although this may have improved

Advice to Senior Management

Engage with your employees and the issues that they need help resolving
Keep abreast of current technology

Pros

I learned an absolutely ridiculous amount at Wiley-Blackwell. The skills I developed (and could put on my resume) were above and beyond what I expected from the job. Also, the people who work there are FANTASTIC. Friendly, competent, flexible, considerate, and completely willing to taking into account your personal life. Socially, it was a GREAT atmosphere.

Cons

Don't temp for them. I was hired as a temp, and ended up working there for a year. Every month or so management would ask me to stay on a little longer, but then make some excuse as to why they couldn't hire me permanently... despite other departments hiring temps permanently. It didn't allow me to make plans, not knowing how long I'd be employed, and eventually I quit to find something better.

Advice to Senior Management

As to your temps: Fish or cut bait. Please. Also, consider consolidating your data storage and website systems, because it's rather messy.

Pros

Pleasant environment, good opportunities, nice people, interesting work

Cons

Bad office location, work can be a bit samey

Advice to Senior Management

A bit more communication would be useful.

Pros

Everyone you work with is smart -- your fellow editors, your authors, your publicists, etc. Most editors have PhDs in their field areas and stay on top of developments in their discipline. You cannot work in the editorial department without learning a ton about your subject and current thought in it.

The office is casual and very open. I never got a sense that there was competition and people on 'rival' lists wanted to help each other hit targets. Half of my intern group was hired into fulltime positions

Cons

Like all publishing jobs, the pay is dismal and you have to work long hours to make those deadlines. There's also some disillusionment with academia that sets in once you reject 200 proposals in one day knowing that all those professors need to be published to get tenure.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay interns and entry-level people more, so we don't have to balance 40 hours a week with multiple side jobs just to pay the bills.