Avoid at all cossts - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

1.0
3 Nov 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues, good work life balance and paid time off

Cons

Total mess and a lesson in how to completely mismanage a company in a time of transition. Can't see it staying in business. Everyone is either being laid off or leaving on their own accord because the office politics and morale is so, so bad. And for all those people reading this who chock this up to a bitter ex-employee ... just wait, the tide isn't turning. It's too late.

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2.0
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Cons

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