McGraw Hill Reviews

4.0

89% would recommend to a friend

(1,558 total reviews)

Simon Allen

93% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

McGraw Hill has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,558 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The McGraw Hill employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
29 Dec 2018

Stuck in a time warp

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some great people; innovative tech

Cons

Toxic leadership stuck in a time warp; the wrong people promoted and protected even when faced with damning evidence of bullying and treating direct reports as if they are a threat; cutting edge tech is dumped if the sales teams decide not to try selling it; HR not interested in representing staff who offer feedback, only in protecting those with “knowledge” and creating “mean girls” cliques.

1.0
25 Oct 2019

Take your talent elsewhere, it will be lost here.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Some great people, who believe in the vision and work too hard for it - Market leading products (although the gap is closing/closed fast) - Huge opportunity to disrupt the market

Cons

- Losing revenue, losing talent, losing market share, losing opportunity - Toxic culture that is holding the company back - Incredibly poor leadership at the President level in Higher Ed and International which pervades down - poor leaders promoting poor leaders because they're all 'yes' people who like to be agreed with and fawned over - Bullying behaviour is common, and HR prefers to blame the person being bullied than take action to prevent it - how much talent do you have to lose because of one individual before it stops? Take a step back and look at the bigger picture, then rethink promoting and relocating toxic people into more senior roles where they can infect more and more people - Weak to non-existent strategy - trying to turn the clock back to how the company used to be run when the market has moved on is never going to be a winning strategy - Inability to build disruptive products internally, the engineering teams are at capacity and cannot deliver when priorities are split across the business - Teams, especially sales, set in their ways and refuse to capitalise on the opportunity to disrupt the market because it's different to what they've done before and change is hard

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McGraw Hill Response
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Thank you for providing your feedback. As reflected in our core values, we respect and honor the opinions of all of our employees. As you may recall, one of our core values is "Speak Out," in which we encourage employees to openly and candidly share their views. We take your observations very seriously and would like to learn more. If you have an issue that was not addressed when you were employed here, please reach out to us so we can take the appropriate steps to resolve the matter. If you are willing to provide more information, please email us at talentacquisition@mheducation.com. Cengage and McGraw-Hill are joining to create a new global learning company to provide students with more affordable access to superior course materials and platforms. The new company will positively impact the lives of millions of students globally and will accelerate and expand affordability initiatives for college students in the U.S. For more details on our merger, visit http://betterlearningtogether.com. With over 130 years in the education space, we know we will never stop learning and growing. We hope to hear from you soon.
1.0
25 Apr 2015
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Pros

Not many great things to say. The great thing is no one knows what they're doing. So if you do you will look like a genius :)

Cons

Manager micromanager. They are inexperienced and will use you. They need structure. They got rid of the best.

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