Frequent Reorganization - Anonymous employee Elsevier Employee Review

3.0
Apr 6, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Product teams really share a common vision and are tight knit and want to advance their offering. The people really make Elsevier even though the work might be less-than-inspiring some days. Flexible work/life balance. Home office flexibility based on team. Ability for attending conferences and additional training. Excellent PTO. Health Insurance and benefits compensurate to what you find anywhere these days.

Cons

Frequent reorganization which can be highly distruptive to advancing work. Depending on who your direct leadership is, they can be micromanage-y. Seem to recycle poor performing leaders in organization perhaps due to executive nepotism? I am not sure, but its a theme here. Very difficult to advance unless you are a golden-child of someone at the executive/VP level. Technology services and support of product application is challenging after go-live. They tend to move on to other products with business cases and funding. This presents many challenges as products begin to mature.

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Elsevier Response
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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.
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