Its who you know... - Software Engineer ProQuest Employee Review

1.0
Jul 9, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Time off policy was great. Team members and most middle management(Directors and Below) are great. Team members genuinely cares about their customers.

Cons

This company loves layoffs. The C levels are dishonest (they carefully word words to leave room for technicality), some low quality employees in 2 locations (Ann Arbor and Jerusalem ) that somehow never gets in trouble. One person didnt show up to work consistently and was still able to continue working like nothing happened. They hire lots of people in low pay markets = increase in profits!. Ancient ways of leadership. Company survives because of low churn in their customer base. Some customers have no idea they are paying for products and the tactic of proquest is not to "wake them". If you are considering joining this company, I would avoid it.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Working for ProQuest was great. Great pay. Great communication with HR and all the departments I interacted with. It was a great working environment with solid teams and highly skilled managers leading those teams.

Cons

No cons that I can speak of.

1.0
Jun 1, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent work life balance, great coworkers

Cons

Little room for advancement - 1 actual promotion and 2 “lateral” promotions in 10 years despite consistent exemplary, goal-exceeding performance and increased responsibilities. Ultimately my loyalty was rewarded by being informed that the following quarter there would be a surprise transfer to move me to another team in a specialist role that “was not open to discussion.” After weeks of trying to get answers as to the expectations and success metrics for this (alleged) new role, I was laid off as part of a “restructuring” - supposedly because I “lacked seniority” in the “new role” I’d been forced to take.

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