Wolters Kluwer Reviews

Pros

* The company has a good location
* The company has an awesome opportunity in the market if it can get its act together.
* Free coffee

Cons

* Company is in limbo about its new direction
* There is a huge age divide, not a even distribution

Advice to Senior Management

Embrace change. Transition away from the traditional law products and emphasize the business compliance products more.
Create clear goals for moving forward.

Pros

- good training
- interesting jobs even for young people
- people dedicated to work well
- nice atmosphere between colleagues

Cons

- Executive managers' bad knowledge of editing business and our readers' concerns
- global recipees applied to local et unique products
- figures law v. concern of high standard of quality
- good products poorly marketed, and marketing is always right
- Bad salaries and no incentives

Advice to Senior Management

- Listen to your editors, they may be right and make you save time and money on some goals and process
- Listen to your customers, especially in a crisis time, they are always right
- Use also your eyes, to read our publications and less figures and tables
- Stop reorganizing endlessly
- Recognize efforts

Pros

Family work life balance is very fair
Not hard to be a rockstar if you know what you are doing

Cons

Pay is misserably low
Company doesn't know how to invest in itself
Lots of infighting and lack of alignment among executive leadership
Underspending on projects
Notable lack of credibility with leadership
No structure

Advice to Senior Management

Remove New York leadership that absolutely has demolished any ability for the company to produce or deliver something and hire competent leadership. I really think Nancy has had an incredibly filtered view of just how out of hand things have gotten stateside.

Pros

Global company with global opportunities
Good staff

Cons

communication from senior managers not great

Pros

All the oservations from a student point of view who has never been working as a professional developer before:
- flexible hours(important for students - work/university balance)
- getting in touch with commercial programming, code repositories, real teamwork
- getting to know how to delegate tasks ;)
- some new technologies
- salary based on the number of hours worked during the month
- convenient form of contract

Cons

- relatively low salary(especially in the beginning)
- senior manager's attitude to student workers(not very friendly, almost impossible to convince that you should get more for what you're doing)
- lack of trainings

Advice to Senior Management

Change at least two last points mentioned as "cons" to make people(students) work with more commitment. Make them see they have some development opportunities and invest in people.

Pros

Benefits package was OK (not excellent), and approximately 30% of management were competent, respectful, and reasonable. Paid time off was very good: 20 days sick and vacation combined, plus 7 holidays. Some great people work for WK-Health, but the best don't stay.

Cons

Salaries are dreadful. Depending which group you work with, constant intense stress can be expected, or you may have problems filling your day. Zero personal development, almost zero growth potential. Most management personnel are arrogant, disrespectful, and blissfully unaware of what it means to produce what they are asking. Huge problems are simply tolerated and walked around, like the elephant in the room, because managers don't know how to solve problems...they apparently excel at Excel, and little else.

Advice to Senior Management

Recognize that the ones in the trenches matter for more than their output. Consider an advancement policy that's more than a popularity contest. Get rid of the dead wood; there are barely functioning employees with tremendous longevity that are making far more than newer hires who are producing 20x as much. Eradicate the offensive culture of arrogance that permeates the management levels.

Pros

Benefits – Great
PTO – More than other companies
Paid Company Holidays – More than other companies
Company Discounts

Cons

Management is unresponsive
Very little positive reinforcement
Lack of infrastructure (the left hand never knows what the right hand is doing)
False hope from upper management for a better workplace environment
Meaningless surveys (you receive a survey, complete a survey, have a town hall and it is all “just talk” or an idea with no follow through)
Ideas are never properly communicated

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the employees or trends. If an office has a lot of resignations then ask why. Employees resigned due to current management (my guess is they are still there and they were never dealt with) and salary (do the new replacement employees make more? a lot more? are they worth it????) .

Pros

Location is a great place

Cons

Politics ruins this work place

Advice to Senior Management

Leadership in hagerstown in terrible

Pros

Good balance of work and life combined with good opportunitiews for interesting work.

Cons

The constantly changing priorities makes WKUK a very frustrating place to work. Once you have worked out the best strategy try and ensure you communicate this to the wider teams and stick to it.

Advice to Senior Management

Work out what you want to be the best at!

Pros

They are fair, not micro managing, and the benefits and salary are fair for what I do.

Cons

none I am very happy

Advice to Senior Management

Stop with all the latest and greatest time wasters like Six Sigma, and they love Corporate BS words. Too top heavy