Company that has lost its way... - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

2.0
Jun 2, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Wiley family. There are lots of good people here, but those are dwindling. Good benefits, but getting worse by the year.

Cons

Culture of layoffs, not opportunity as it once was. No career conversations happen. It's just get the annual review paperwork done. Weak leadership. They have gutted organizations to the point that work will not get done to the detriment of customers and staff who rely on this work. Poor communication-->people or groups of people come and go and you find out this kind of information accidentally. All about money...recent T&E policy reflects growing gap between executive team and rest of organization. Technology is grim. And if you love a place where you go through 2 or more Dell laptops per year. If you like an environment with no heart or soul, this is the company for you!

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