Cultural & Leadership Changes Required - Engineering Leader Elsevier Employee Review

2.0
31 Jan 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Very smart and interesting people to work with * Strong talent pipeline from universities * Progressive policies, strong female representation * New CEO has a ton of potential * Well known brand

Cons

* Engineering leadership underwhelms and underperforms, engineering teams struggle * Product organization and leadership is astonishingly ineffective and toxic * Ivory towers add friction and minimal practical value * Benefits are subpar

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Elsevier Response
6y
Thank you for your review. We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience of when you worked at Elsevier. Regarding the cons listed in your review, frankly, this is not the kind of employee experience that we want any of our former employees to have. We take your feedback seriously and our tech leadership teams are investigating and discussing how to improve things further should we find that the points raised here resonate with our current employees in the same role. We are glad that all our leadership teams in tech are committed and unified in striving to create a superior workplace culture where employees feel empowered and well-rewarded to do challenging and fulfilling work. Recognising the value of a happy and healthy workforce, we offer competitive benefits.

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Industry leader Great benefits Incentive trips Invests heavily in its employees

Cons

Processes can be burdensome and clunky at times

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Elsevier Response
1mo
Thank you for this balanced and thoughtful review. We're glad to hear that our benefits and investment in people are making a positive impact, those are commitments we take seriously. On the process feedback: Leadership is actively reviewing operational workflows, and the advice to listen more closely to employee feedback is something we're holding ourselves accountable to. If you're open to it, we'd encourage you to bring specific examples forward through your team or people and culture contacts. Change is most effective when it's grounded in the real experiences of the people doing the work, and that means you. Feel free to reach out to us at elseviergdrev@elsevier.com to provide more information Thank you for staying engaged and for caring enough to share this. It matters.
4.0
20 Jun 2026
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Pros

-Great company -Team has talented, experienced account managers and product experts who know the territory well

Cons

West team management is heavy on micromanagement and sets unrealistic territory targets without rep input — high turnover, and long tenure in company seems to shield this manager from accountability and growth

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