Reed Elsevier Group Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – It's an old world book publishing company struggling to transition to a new world company. It is extremely challenging to see and help a company cross this technological chasm where the entire publishing industry is experiencing a severe transformation upheaval which has claimed many victims in the wake of its paradigm realignment. Reed Elsevier won't go under but may just cobble along. It is both exciting and frightening.

Cons – Ironically, depending on how you look at it, the pros are also the cons. For those willing to embrace this industry change and carve a new frontier, you will enjoy working here. For those less brave, this is not the place for you.

Advice to Senior Management – You must re-instill the faith in employees and rally the troops through this industry change. Employees are uneasy and do not trust management. Turnover is high. Managers need to have 1 on 1s with their team and be brutally honest with them in the change to come and what it means to the employees. That honesty will endear the staff with management and help reduce churn to some extent.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – great people, great salary, great benefits, very relaxed working environment

Cons – not enough annual raise the last couple of years

Advice to Senior Management – N/A

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – best reason to work at Reed Elsevier group of companies would be the global exposure and diversity of workforce which promotes an excellent work environment

Cons – downsides of working at Reed elsevier would focus on compensation practices targeting low end of the spectrum and not much flexibility in remote work.

Advice to Senior Management – better to look at workforce compensation and benchmark it against the industry to ensure talent retention and recognition at work place.

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – Lots of training and traveling, simple org structure, nice and brilliant colleagues. competitive wage and holidays. Can be long term if one wants to.

Cons – The work gets redundant after 6 months
extremely hands on, one do all
generally unhappy customer due to stringent commercial practice

Advice to Senior Management – for a company this size stock option would be nice to reward and retain talents or loyal employees, incentives and benefits are not unified

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – values ,work ethic is good as is evident from the type of people in my team with transparent reporting and auditing of results,job potential and scope is excellent for growth in the company, team ,salary is competitive

Cons – time ,work life balance, efforts ,tough commute

Advice to Senior Management – not sure

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – Global Presence with strong brand names in it's portfolio

Cons – Its not "What you know" it's "who you know" and "How Well You Know" gets you anywhere

Advice to Senior Management – Please wake up and smell the coffee before it's too late

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – Good products, good values system

Cons – Slow to evolve, cheap on IT technology

Advice to Senior Management – Circular managment. Senior managment shoud seek reviews from staff about how mid management perform to get a full picture

Former Employee – worked at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – Wonderful company with a close knit community of employees all working towards a similar goal of delivering a product on time. Each member of the staff knew there responsibilities and understood what made the company tick.

Cons – Pace was always quickened due to time sensitive objectives. Working till the job was completed was always something we had to handle.

Advice to Senior Management – Allow employees to set beforehand a working timeframe when starting a workweek. Once this is established it will beenefit the company.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – Health benefits is great. I love the flexible work hours.

Cons – People are tired and their future is unclear. It is just a job.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your people and think long term.

Former Employee – worked at Reed Elsevier Group

Pros – Technology is always up to date. Great benefits.

Cons – Too much politics. You have a lot of upper management that are international or have just recently moved to the U.S. and they carry a lot of the "in your face" European management style that may come off as rude.

Advice to Senior Management – Listen to your employees. It's one thing to have open dialog with your direct team but people under them need to know you exist.