OCLC now. - Senior Software Engineer OCLC Employee Review

4.0
Feb 13, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work schedules are available. Generous leave policies. Excellent physical working environment and equipment. Generous free-parking. High-tech gym, courts, sauna. Very relaxed dress-code.

Cons

Company is top-heavy with management. Pay-freeze for working staff, but managers still get 70% of their bonus. Fewer staff but increasing workload is putting a burden on employees. Decisions affecting employees, (like telecommuting, flex-time) are not consistant across the organization. Unrealistic Project deadlines are set at a high management level without knowing actual effort involved. A once superior training policy is almost non-existent.

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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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