Large company, can be bureaucratic and risk of working in silos
Cons
Forward thinking, driven, therefore willing to invest in its staff, and tends to be very flexible
Elsevier Response
7y
Thank you for your review. As a global organization, Elsevier is doing an incredible amount of work to promote collaborations and reduce silos. We will continue to do this and we hope you can join your manager and team to play your part in it.
Industry leader
Great benefits
Incentive trips
Invests heavily in its employees
Cons
Processes can be burdensome and clunky at times
Elsevier Response
3w
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.
Every direct manager I've had has been excellent: supportive, positive, and trusting me to deliver good work instead of micromanaging. Employees tend to stay, which suggests stability even if not everyone gets promotions or significant raises.
Cons
The pressure to outsource as much as possible, which is common at every publisher, leads to frustration. Because promotions or significant raises seem to be rare, you may be stuck in neutral unless you're very openly ambitious.