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      Elsevier reviews

      4.0

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (2,189 total reviews)

      Kumsal Bayazit

      90% approve of CEO

      75% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.5

      Work/Life balance

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      Elsevier has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,189 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Elsevier employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      2K reviews
      5.0
      Aug 21, 2014

      Good Company. Stable. Great Benefits

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      All the benefits of working for a large multinational. Great health benefits Nice professional environment Nice people to work with Great place to learn project management Good work-life balance

      Cons

      Company can move slowly and is struggling to move to digital publishing from print. Company is silo-ed and often if seems as if there are groups working separately toward common goals with no knowledge of what the other groups are doing.

      2.0
      Aug 19, 2014

      Boundarylessness

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It looks good on your CV thats about it other than there are some genuinely great people there unfortunately they are outnumbered by the incompetent and untrustworthy. Oxford staff are lovely and not as politically highly strung as the London offices.

      Cons

      Senior Management seem incapable of making any decision unless its .... guess what? another re-organisation!! You were in these silos and that wasn't working so we have created new silos !!! Yay and managed to make redundant the people who actually delivered. Do not trust HR, they actively support the policy of institutional bullying, if you want to work there develop a thick skin and ideally wear a stab proof vest.

      2.0
      Aug 15, 2014

      Corporate Lingo Bingo

      Editorial project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent benefits. A lot of talk about mentoring and enhancement of skills, but no true valuing of the hardest (grunt) workers.

      Cons

      Full of nonefficient corporate BS, purported to increase efficiency but does just the opposite. Lots of hard workers, but lots of the work is on nonimportant tasks that are for career advancement rather than improvement of the products.

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