Elsevier reviews

* Very political. Say the wrong thing and you'll get fired "for no reason" even if it's protected speech. * Every year, they lower the average salary of their software engineers. It used to be over 100k in Stl, but now it's under 100k in Philly which has 30% higher cost of living. * They shut down a branch every year, laying off everyone there. This includes Saint Louis and Atlanta. Eventually, they'll outsource everything to India (they're in the process of it and about 1/4 there) * A director rounded up a bunch of people he just laid off into a room to promote some people he hadn't laid off and talked about growth in the company to room half full of people he laid off a week earlier. * Was terminated by the director (while my manager was on vacation in Mexico) the day after I gave my two weeks notice. If you're going to quit, don't give them notice. * Director liked to blame predecessor for everything even though he had been gone a while. * Was brought on a 4 months before they announced they were closing the Saint Louis branch

Expensive health insurance (the deductibles will kill you--you end up never wanting to go to the doctor even if you need to due to the horrendous bills you'd get strapped with), given more projects than you can handle at once and are still expected to meet your target goal, low pay ('"raises" are extremely small).