Pros
Global working environment, potential to move around within the organisation, flexible working hours/mobility like working from home. opportunity to work with highly intelligent former academics that are passionate about advancing research and science. Solid benefits like pension, leave days, etc.
Cons
you would have to be sitting under a rock to not have heard about the drama happening in the academic publishing sector. Elsevier is trying hard to reinvent itself as an information analytics company, but the reality is that the majority of the revenue is coming from ScienceDirect journal subscriptions. Management are scared of the ceo who has been known to shout at his direct reports when frustrated. This results in a great deal of pressure from the top to accelerate new revenues streams from Elsevier's digital platforms. The result? Lots of reorgs, finger pointing, politics, revolving door of people coming and going, high turnover, lots of people on burnout/stress leave, really bad morale. Some groups are worse off than others. In particular marketing is a complete mess and let by an incompetent fool. Product and Sales are both led by strong leaders and have less issues.
