The place to start; not the place to stay - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

2.0
Oct 10, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work/life balance, PTO, great colleagues, great place to start at a first corporate job, learn a fair amount

Cons

-You can put in your time and have great performance reviews but still utterly impossible to move up -Your boss or colleague leaves, in order to save every last time you and/or your colleagues will be forced to do the job under the guise of "it's a great opportunity" when really the job is split amongst who is left -Having a manager in a different country who "doesn't understand" U.S. HR policies and thus have the ability to play dumb when it comes to grade level ranges, working hours and salaries -High performers are given more work but it's actually a curse, not a blessing - low performers get away with being incompetent -For a large corporate company I am shocked by the lack of protocol and the way people can "cut corners" - just because it works fairly in one dpt does not mean things will be fair in another

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