Losing its legacy and innovation - Senior Systems Analyst OCLC Employee Review

3.0
Jul 18, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

If you want to work with people who are the best and really understand programming and ways it can be used, work there. The pay is average, the benefits are good (though sliding downwards slowly) and when you need time for family, they do make it possible.

Cons

The new management has lost sight of the legacy and the people who made it happen. Some divisions have rejected agile because of the way it micromanages the employees there. To get any real innovation you have to do it on your own time and then go trough hurdles to use it.

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 13, 2026
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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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