Pros
The company offers all 1st year full-time employees a minimum of 19 paid vacation days per year. The management is knowledgeable, supportive, and respectful of colleagues. As people are normally promoted from within, the "higher-ups" know (1st hand) the responsibilities of a production editor and do not babysit or micromanage their subordinates. If the colleague should have a question, management is always welcoming and willing offer advice/solutions. the work the company produces is good for the world and management on the whole wants colleagues to excel in their positions and advance within the company. The company is transparent with it's employees and strives to keep employees abreast of all developments. working at this company also feels stable and employees feel as though they have a good sense of job security. Also, the 50% discount on books and journals for all WIley employees is pretty great.
Cons
In this position you are essentially the hub of a wheel with many, many, spokes. these spokes are very demanding and will strive to drain you of your emotional vitality. your success as a production editor hinges on your ability to coordinate the efforts of hundreds of people you've never met. your office space will be silent, it will be hard to meet people, you will feel extremely lonely most of the time. half of the company will complain that their breakroom shares a wall with their silent working space so forging relationships with others by the water cooler/vending machine is an impossibility. A typical day, means 7 hours of silence, marked only by a 5 minute phone call with a cranky academic and a polite "thank you" for holding the door for someone as they enter the restroom. Sometimes you will attempt to greet a colleague, open your mouth, and awkwardly have nothing but air emerge because you haven't said a word for 5 hours and your voice faded away. It's hard to make ends meet with a salary from Wiley and most colleagues have taken second jobs. The majority of Wiley employees have masters degrees from private/ivy league universities. They are most excited about the prospect of paying off their student loans as they finance their children's college educations. other notes: most of the academic societies are slow to embrace technology so you'll get really good at explaining how the internet works. Oh, and you want to work in publishing people you like to READ? Haahahaha! You'll never have time to read any of the articles that you publish. Really.