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      2.7

      31% would recommend to a friend

      (284 total reviews)
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      David Prichard

      22% approve of CEO

      30% positive business outlook

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      OCLC has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 284 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The OCLC employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      284 reviews
      2.0
      Jun 25, 2026

      Good customers and benefits, but poor leadership and pay

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The customers are great. The retirement plan is also nice. The medical benefits are good.

      Cons

      Everything else. Overworked. Underpaid - truly and if you stay here a while you’ll make significantly less than new hires. The SLT (senior leadership team) is truly a case study in cronyism. They all brought each other in. Tech projects never get completed yet the only thing that stays consistent are the senior leadership- hmmm? Truly the CEO is one of the most pompous people I have ever encountered. You have to listen to him do a reading of a poem every year (it is truly mandatory but I took vacation to avoid it.) You have to watch him berate specific teams and projects in front of everyone. Morale, no such thing. Also, SLT - you get what you voted for. No funding for libraries means less business for OCLC. The fact that you all didn’t grasp that is beyond me.

      1.0
      Jun 23, 2026

      Great medical benefits can't save toxic culture

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great medical benefits are all that remains positive.

      Cons

      Completely toxic culture led by a tyrant and his minions.

      2.0
      Jun 13, 2026

      Just say no if you have options

      anonymous employee- former employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The benefits, particularly the thrift plan, are good for as long as they still exist. The employees are generally smart and caring people.

      Cons

      Upper management is neither good nor trustworthy. To go into details would most likely violate this website's TOS. Trust them not to tell you the truth, trust them to blame you if they can save themselves for another year. Any stories you've heard about a great place to work are based on old data. That company no longer exists. While layoffs have always been a threat, employees are constantly on edge now and having the CEO tell them if they want to stay on they shouldn't make trouble does not help, to say the least If you get hired here, understand that this cannot be a long term destination. Get your experience, have an exit plan, don't get comfortable and fade into mediocrity because that is your future, and that's if you are lucky. I just want to add that everything the other reviews say about the president is true. He absolutely did mock employee responses to an opinion survey at a town hall.

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