Low pay, clueless direction - Analyst OCLC Employee Review

2.0
May 14, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Immediate manager is great. - I've gotten the opportunity to learn skills. - Relaxed environment. - Good non-pay benefits.

Cons

- Pay is abysmal. Same job would pay double elsewhere. I've literally never seen my job title pay less anywhere else. Meanwhile the CEO rakes in a multimillion-dollar salary (non-profit company by the way). This was true pre-pandemic, but is way more obvious now. - The business decisions make no sense. - People resist any and all change, because failure is fine. Our customers can't afford to leave us, so we won't be punished by delivering garbage. - Don't fall for the long tenure stat they have. People stay a long time, it's true, but there are only so many careers for librarians that don't want to work in a library. People stay because there's nowhere else to go.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Recommend
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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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