Is this real life? - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review
5.0
26 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
Current employee, more than 8 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
I return home some days after a long day at work and think "Is this real life? Is my job really *that* awesome?!" Yes and yes.
Wiley Education Services (formerly Deltak) is a special place to work. Our work is guided by a strong mission - to improve lives through higher ed. Our mission is supported by a community of passionate and talented employees. It is a pleasure to work alongside such a top-notch group of folks day in and day out.
Speaking of top-notch groups of folks...how about WES's Leadership team? They're great! They demonstrate great care and concern for our team members and actively seek and apply team member feedback. Their doors are figuratively always open and that's pretty cool.
The Culture as WES is something to write home about, too! Sure we work hard, but we play hard too through events sponsored by our in-house Culture Club.
And it all that wasn't enough, Wiley offers a sweet benefits package with generous PTO to boot!
I am glad this is real life! I would highly recommend WES as an employer.
Cons
WES is a learning culture which means that we're always innovating and always changing. Change can be uncomfortable and some of our team members are definitely feeling change fatigue.
Wiley Response
8y
Amazing! It's absolutely true that we have a pretty special mission to improve people's lives through education and learning throughout the world. That's pretty great when you take a moment to think about it. Thanks for the thorough review!
Nice coworkers and managers, work-life balance, smart people and industry, opportunities to grow skillset. If you volunteer for opportunities, you will be supported and will learn a lot about the industry.
Once of the most toxic work environments I've ever worked at. Upper management tears editors down if you are not a favorite. Favorites are chosen by metrics that do not exist, and are subjective and arbitrary. Wiley is losing money because brilliant, young editors leave due to no support and toxic work environments.
Wiley Trade is essentially a hybrid publisher. Author's put a lot of money into their book -- too much. There is very very little marketing and publicity support for authors. But they brand as more than there actually is. All in all a very sad place to work and sad for authors.