Not the company it used to be - Executive Editor Wiley Employee Review

2.0
21 Aug 2012
Recommend
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Pros

I used to tell everyone that Wiley was the best place to work, and that was something management was glad to hear. Management is still focused on profitability, and a lot of really smart people work there. We like to joke that publishing is full of people who were on the lit mag in high school, and Wiley is the people who were on yearbook. We're the nerds who know what people will pay to read.

Cons

Most of the the new management is foreign, and they seem eager to destroy what the old management created. People are being laid off. Morale is very low. Much of what people really liked about Wiley is being dismantled.

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Cons

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