Great place to work, but you will be laid off - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

3.0
Dec 20, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Relaxed atmosphere (too relaxed), talented employees (but undervalued), decent benefits w/ a decent amount of vacation time (to distract that the pay is low).

Cons

Currently restructuring, most employees are being laid off due to work is being outsourced to India. And those that are laid off are forced to stay months after in order to recieve severance. Wiley seems to spend their milions buying other companies instead of creating their own original ideas. The original ideas they do have, don't make any sense and have no direction.

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