Great People, Awful Direction - Project Manager Wiley Employee Review

3.0
Jul 12, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers really were like family. And the work was fun and challenging.

Cons

I worked there for almost 15 years. When I first started, it was a great place to work. But now? The leadership is ALWAYS changing RAPIDLY. The very top leadership stays for a year, makes a lot of changes based on zero experience in the industry, gets a $1.5m bonus then leaves so they don't have to witness the damage. And the cycle repeats. People with 10+ years in publishing/learning are at the bottom of leadership and they hire people from other totally unrelated industries to run the company and make AWFUL decisions. They should be promoting people from within the company. Why? Because the top leadership has no idea what goes on in the day-to-day business, or what it takes to get things done. So they make catastrophic changes that makes everyone else's jobs more difficult. Then they lay off the people who are struggling because of leadership's decisions. Then they scramble to patch the hole. No one is allowed to talk about who left or who is leaving, so the people that remain struggle to get things done with no clue who to go to in the missing person's absence.

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Wiley Response
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I'm disappointed to hear that your experience at Wiley wasn’t a great one. Although you left our organization we really appreciate you taking the time to review as we do we want to continue to evolve as an organization. We want all our employees to be seen and heard and it is important that we understand where we can improve.

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