Sr. Program Manager - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

1.0
18 Aug 2017
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The recruiter was nice and professional

Cons

I left my good pay contractor job and took a pay cut to join Wiley. I was told even saw the presentation deck of the portfolio with my name on it that I was hired to deliver the portfolio. Two weeks after I joined, my manager asked me not to go to the office and saying she did not see the leadership in me. I was not what she was looking for ( after 7 people interviewed me)? And only two weeks after I started which I had not even started working at all? Then I was fired..... I still had the email when she hired me saying how great I was, how lucky she was. She just knew I was the right one. I still had the text she sent me saying "thank me for joining her team". And two weeks later I was fired for not showing the leadership?!!!! My manager was so insecure, incompetent

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