Good Place to Work... Not Perfect, Though - Software Developer OCLC Employee Review

4.0
Nov 13, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Flexible ours - Great work/family life balance - I enjoy collaborating w/ the people on my team - The benefits are great - One of the Best Places to Work in Ohio - Opportunities to work from home when necessary - Some managers really care about the people they manage... like mine

Cons

- Needs improvement in the "performance-based salary increases" policy - Upper management (Director and above) seems disconnected w/ those "below" - Promotions don't seem to happen fairly - Culture seems to be changing... some good and some bad. The bad is that upper management seems to care less for the people. I've watched great employees leave in the last 6 - 12 months and it is quite a difficult thing, to watch OCLC lose great talented people

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5.0
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Pros

Great team and work environment Interesting work day to day Working here feels meaningful

Cons

Compensation can be lower than average

2.0
Jun 13, 2026
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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