Increasingly Toxic Environment - Anonymous employee Wolters Kluwer Employee Review

2.0
10 Apr 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Worked with the company for several years; overall, had a good experience with a number of different managers. Generally a friendly, supportive environment - or at least was. Sadly. this seems to be changing.

Cons

A prior reviewer wrote that management / HR is erratic and unpredictable and could easily turn on employees for unknown reasons. By and large, true. I witnessed this with others and by the end of my own tenure, had been on the receiving end of some shockingly infantile and mean-spirited behavior from an utterly narcissistic VP - not easy to deal with when you're doing the work of two people and your life/work balance is already out of whack. The quality of the management, in particular the kinds of personalities being promoted, has changed for the worse and is hurting the company's overall morale badly. There has been a notable exodus of employees - either terminated or resigning - over the past year.

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Pros

Too many to list. #1 The culture values open communication, thoughtful decision-making, and continuous improvement #2 High level of autonomy and trust between Associate Directors and Product Leadership #3 Strong exposure to complex, meaningful product challenges #4 Deep Product leadership knowledge about Clients served #5 Supportive environment for growth into product leadership

Cons

None. The existing Product Leadership is highly effective and perfect as is. Don't change a single thing.

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Wolters Kluwer Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s great to hear that the product culture, autonomy, and exposure to meaningful challenges are coming through so strongly, along with the support for growth into leadership roles. Creating an environment where people feel trusted, can contribute, and continue to develop is a key part of how product teams succeed. We appreciate you taking the time to share this perspective. – Your employer branding team at Wolters Kluwer
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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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