Once great; tragic and unnecessary decline - Software Engineer Wolters Kluwer Employee Review

2.0
Aug 23, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Can be an ok place to start a software career, depending on which department you hire into and who is managing it. Good PTO plans, especially at 5 and 10 year levels.

Cons

Management at Team Lead level and above became dysfunctional in a hostile, toxic, and terminal manner. Higher up at VP level and beyond was marked by one ill-advised and destructive initiative after another. Utter rejection of all good advice to the contrary from the loyal non-management staff at the bottom. Can be hard to find time when they will let you enjoy above-said generous PTO; frequent, lengthy blackouts can interfere. Unreasonable limits placed on time off near holidays. Pay lags badly as you get more skilled. You'll get promises, promises, for years, and it will never happen.

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5.0
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Pros

Great salary and commission, great work life balance, great tools

Cons

Can become too bogged down in administrative tasks, taking time away from selling.

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Wolters Kluwer Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s great to hear that you value the compensation, work-life balance, and tools that support your work at Wolters Kluwer. Your feedback on administrative processes is noted and important for how colleagues are able to focus on delivering value for customers and work effectively. We appreciate you taking the time to share this perspective. – Your talent brand team at Wolters Kluwer
4.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

Wolters Kluwer has some genuinely amazing people working for them and offers flextime for good work/life balance

Cons

Recently began pushing to "inhouse-outsource" as much of the core business functions as possible to their new service center in Pune, India. While many of my Indian colleagues are exceptional people, the constant turnover with overseas contractors and haphazard hiring and training process means that many of these staff members are woefully underprepared and set up for failure. As an example, I had to train my Indian contractor replacement before I left - while he was a lovely person, he had zero training in or experience with US payroll, benefit or tax structures despite that being approximately 50% of my core job function.

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Wolters Kluwer Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience and for your time with us in New York. It’s great to hear that you valued the people you worked with and the flexibility that supported a healthy work-life balance. Your feedback on knowledge transfer, onboarding, and global ways of working is noted and important for how colleagues feel supported and able to work effectively. We appreciate you taking the time to share this perspective. – Your talent brand team at Wolters Kluwer
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