Pros
there are no pros to speak of
Cons
If you're interested in engineering, this is not the place for you. Almost anywhere else will be a better experience. Where to start? The CEO talks in platitudes. At one town hall, he mentioned "servant leadership" multiple times, explaining how he is there to serve the people that work for him. Yet, the CTO and many other senior leaders directly contradict this ideal with their daily behavior, mostly an arrogant, top-down authoritariansim that is straight out of by gone era. The CTO is the most egregious authoritarian. He dictates technical decisions, despite having no understanding of what his most recent whim means. For example, at his direction, Wiley started the process of moving from Okta to AzureAD for SSO, not for technical reasons, but because the CTO "hates Okta". Similarly, the CTO decided the technical organization would use a monitoring platform, Dynatrace, not because of technical reasons, but "because". There was no technical rationale, and there were no engineering teams involved in the decision. The CTO is also the reason for the rampant cronyism. He came from Pearson, and since joining Wiley has actively recruited and hired Pearson employees. The best example of this is his decision to start an "engineering center" in Sri Lanka. Why Sri Lanka? Because it's a hotbed of technical/engineering innovation? No. Because it has world-class universities turning out top engineering talent? No. Because many of the world's leading technical/engineering companies are opening offices in Sri Lanka? No. Rather, because the CTO did the same thing at Pearson: he started an office there and recruited a bunch of people; these are the same people that he has now poached from Pearson and got to join Wiley. So, he is actively building a monoculture where everyone are former employees of Pearson and bing all the baggage of that failing organization. While the leadership at Wiley is pathetic, the employees are just as bad. Most are apathetic--understandably. That said, no one is doing good work. Instead, they're all passing time until they get fired or laid off and get a seveance package. I actually had a co-worker tell me that he would not leave on his own, because then he wouldn't get a 4-5 month severance package.