Just say no if you have options - Anonymous Employee- Former Employee OCLC Employee Review

2.0
13 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The benefits, particularly the thrift plan, are good for as long as they still exist. The employees are generally smart and caring people.

Cons

Upper management is neither good nor trustworthy. To go into details would most likely violate this website's TOS. Trust them not to tell you the truth, trust them to blame you if they can save themselves for another year. Any stories you've heard about a great place to work are based on old data. That company no longer exists. While layoffs have always been a threat, employees are constantly on edge now and having the CEO tell them if they want to stay on they shouldn't make trouble does not help, to say the least If you get hired here, understand that this cannot be a long term destination. Get your experience, have an exit plan, don't get comfortable and fade into mediocrity because that is your future, and that's if you are lucky. I just want to add that everything the other reviews say about the president is true. He absolutely did mock employee responses to an opinion survey at a town hall.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
25 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The customers are great. The retirement plan is also nice. The medical benefits are good.

Cons

Everything else. Overworked. Underpaid - truly and if you stay here a while you’ll make significantly less than new hires. The SLT (senior leadership team) is truly a case study in cronyism. They all brought each other in. Tech projects never get completed yet the only thing that stays consistent are the senior leadership- hmmm? Truly the CEO is one of the most pompous people I have ever encountered. You have to listen to him do a reading of a poem every year (it is truly mandatory but I took vacation to avoid it.) You have to watch him berate specific teams and projects in front of everyone. Morale, no such thing. Also, SLT - you get what you voted for. No funding for libraries means less business for OCLC. The fact that you all didn’t grasp that is beyond me.

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