Yesterday's technology, Maybe tomorrow - Senior Software Engineer OCLC Employee Review

2.0
Aug 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are some very talented engineers in the company who understand modern technology. They are passionate about coding and make the work worthwhile. The company does actual good for society in terms of education, knowledge and information.

Cons

Work from home policy is applied unfairly, even among individual teams. Managers let their pets work at home full-time while others have to work a rigid schedule. The open-office plan on the 4th floor is noisy and distracting, making the unfairness even worse. All this does is breed resentment among teams. There isn't much financial incentive to work hard. Raises are miniscule. The diffference in raises between a hard-working employee and a marginal employee is literally ~$200 a year. Promotions are nearly non-existent and based on tenure rather than accomplishments or skills. The CEO cares more about looking good than doing good. I wish the CEO and executives would stop pretending they care about diversity. Faking it is worse than doing nothing and gives false hope to marginalized groups. Let's face it. Middle management is awful. The company is too lazy and cheap to properly interview candidates so they promote whoever happens to be physically available.

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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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