Good company going through a slow transition to adapt from traditional book publisher to a digital content provider. - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

3.0
16 Sept 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Global company. Looking to reinvent itself to mostly digital content offerings vs. old-school book publishing. Friendly, collaborative environment. Good life/work balance.

Cons

Recent reorganization led to significant layoffs, budget cuts and divestment of their consumer properties. Low pay.

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5.0
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Pros

Nice coworkers and managers, work-life balance, smart people and industry, opportunities to grow skillset. If you volunteer for opportunities, you will be supported and will learn a lot about the industry.

Cons

Pay and hybrid office work

2.0
3 Jun 2026
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits for publishing.

Cons

Once of the most toxic work environments I've ever worked at. Upper management tears editors down if you are not a favorite. Favorites are chosen by metrics that do not exist, and are subjective and arbitrary. Wiley is losing money because brilliant, young editors leave due to no support and toxic work environments. Wiley Trade is essentially a hybrid publisher. Author's put a lot of money into their book -- too much. There is very very little marketing and publicity support for authors. But they brand as more than there actually is. All in all a very sad place to work and sad for authors.

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