Great people, lack of leadership and focus. - Program Manager Wiley Employee Review

3.0
14 Mar 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Big distributed teams, challenging and complicated technology landscape provide good opportunity to get a lot of experience. Professional and friendly people with a lot of experience in the field. Very polished communication, after all, this is a publishing company. Very generous PTO policies.

Cons

Depending on the team, there is lack of focus and direction, too many overlapping processes and reports that no one reads or reviews. No room for professional growth or promotion unless you know someone in power. RTO policy doesn't make sense as implemented, there is no nuance or consideration for the job function. There is no leadership or accountability, people on the ground do a lot of good work, but leadership is not accountable. There are too many management layers adding to the inefficiencies.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits for publishing.

Cons

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