Wolters Kluwer reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(4,075 total reviews)
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Stacey Caywood

87% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Wolters Kluwer has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,075 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wolters Kluwer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4K reviews
2.0
Feb 1, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Large company, good benefits, opportunities for advancement if you change your specialty. They have worldwide offices and appeal to the highly skilled marketing person. They have a lot of little perks, like company-sponsored lunches and parties. Their health benefits are above average both in what is covered as well as out-of-pocket cost to employees. They have a fairly generous profit-sharing program, based on a percentage of annual salary. They only require a 37.5 hour workweek and pay most technical employees an annual salary. They offer 24 days of vacation (the parent company is Europe-based so they follow the European idea of lots of 'vacation' time) for new salaried employees.

Cons

Large company doesn't really feel loyal to employees, although they expect absolute loyalty upwards. They are currently in a situation where the parent company, Wolters Kluwer, is demanding a fairly high return on investment; the last year I worked there it was 18%, which is very difficult to maintain in their market segment. They have twice (and, I understand, yet again) cut positions or, in my case, out-sourced positions to fatten the bottom line to try to meet their goals. They also do not give very much feedback to employees regarding contemplated employment changes. For example, in December I was told my job was safe, and in January it was out-sourced.

4.0
Jan 24, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

WKFS is a typical very large company. They pay is competitive for the area. The environment is steady, not much confusions about what your job is. A lot of maintenance work on very old products that still are doing well in the marketplace. Keep your head down, do you work and you'll be fine and get a decent paycheck. There is a decent catered in lunch everyday. The people are generally friendly. The benefits are good, they give you an above average 4 weeks of vacation from the day you start. Seemed to me to be a generally well run place.

Cons

WKFS is a typical very large company. There are a variety of people with different skill levels who work there, but lot of them are people who are looking for their steady paycheck and have stagnated in terms of career advancement. It is very easy to get stuck in a niche job and stay there for years. Their system for evaluating employees seems to change every year. I got the sense management simply had no idea which of their employees were quality, high skilled people and which were cubicle drone dolts. A large new software development project seemed to be floundering because no one really knew its purpose.

1.0
Jan 16, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

You need a paycheck and you don't have any other options. Of course, some of the businesses are better run than others, for example, the US tax business is more successful and better run than many of the other US businesses.

Cons

Poor management, lack of strategy, decisions based on politics not business, crumbling infrastructure, unable to innovate or execute competently on even the biggest most well-funded projects. This company is not just left behind by the competition, even our customers are innovating better and more rapidly with their own content and they are not professional information companies

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