Too much focus on a nonexistent culture - Manager Wiley Employee Review

1.0
Dec 9, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility, not really any emergencies in the industry, Actual coworkers are friendly across different teams. Pockets of great teamwork can show flashes of inspiration and growth.

Cons

Three years of twice-annual layoffs and restructuring across multiple divisions has led to serious stagnation within many teams, while C-level teams discuss growth and culture. Licensing deals are not growth. New products or tools are discussed with no mention of GTM. Hybrid and remote employees are pressured to RTO to grow Wiley's culture. I'm not opposed to RTO or hybrid but Wiley has invested a significant amount of money in creating attendance dashboards, monitoring tools, meanwhile ignoring salary adjustments, career growth, and anything that would actually make people want to return to an office location. An occasional free-food event is not company culture.

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5.0
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Cons

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2.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits for publishing.

Cons

Once of the most toxic work environments I've ever worked at. Upper management tears editors down if you are not a favorite. Favorites are chosen by metrics that do not exist, and are subjective and arbitrary. Wiley is losing money because brilliant, young editors leave due to no support and toxic work environments. Wiley Trade is essentially a hybrid publisher. Author's put a lot of money into their book -- too much. There is very very little marketing and publicity support for authors. But they brand as more than there actually is. All in all a very sad place to work and sad for authors.

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