Restricted by overseas VPs - Anonymous employee ProQuest Employee Review

2.0
Sep 20, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

ProQuest is a great company to work for in terms of benefits, staff well-being and the environment in the office. It is a place where a person can get on - in the right field.

Cons

Unfortunately ProQuest is very staid in its ways. Many of the staff have been employed with the company for over five years so work is now carried out on a conveyor belt with no room to experiment or ambition. The American-led management team are also out of touch with best web-practices, leading to a site that is five years behind the time. Car parking spaces are allocated by length of time with the company, with many Cambridge-based employees driven a matter of yards to the office while those from further away have to park on the street.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Working for ProQuest was great. Great pay. Great communication with HR and all the departments I interacted with. It was a great working environment with solid teams and highly skilled managers leading those teams.

Cons

No cons that I can speak of.

1.0
Jun 1, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent work life balance, great coworkers

Cons

Little room for advancement - 1 actual promotion and 2 “lateral” promotions in 10 years despite consistent exemplary, goal-exceeding performance and increased responsibilities. Ultimately my loyalty was rewarded by being informed that the following quarter there would be a surprise transfer to move me to another team in a specialist role that “was not open to discussion.” After weeks of trying to get answers as to the expectations and success metrics for this (alleged) new role, I was laid off as part of a “restructuring” - supposedly because I “lacked seniority” in the “new role” I’d been forced to take.

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