Not What It Used To Be - Anonymous employee Relias Employee Review

2.0
23 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some of the peers met.

Cons

You have to be a "yes" person. It is not about your productivity or tenure. The organization celebrates the money-makers. They romanticize a false sense of community. They celebrate the coffee shop with a zombie like fixation. It doesn't detract from the underlying problems of management being out of touch with employees. Their inability to read the room has been present for a while. They failed to see during Covid that it takes more than food, drink and "community" when the fact of the matter was that it only showed lack of trust in their employees. Team meetings consist of a manager who is incapable of reigning in meetings that devolve into nonsense and wasted time. Obvious bias exists as there are clear favorites on the team, and their ideas are more readily accepted and heard. Comments as to appearance lead to obvious preference and isolation of other team members. Now that DEI is thing of the past and everyone is trying to navigate it smoothly, Relias proceeds to post the whitest President’s Club photo ever. It’s completely tone-deaf. They continue to make decisions that may seem to make sense at the top but have no relevance or need when it comes to employees.

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5.0
18 Apr 2026
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Pros

Amazing corporate culture Leadership listened to engineering on tools, technology stack, etc Actual product ownership, including necessary input and control (instead of being told you own a product and then not given the necessary access or tools to maintain it)

Cons

Hiring process involved psychological screening with a lot of implicit bias, almost like an IQ test. On the plus side, I've been told they discontinued its use after that was pointed out.

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1.0
30 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Benefits are the best part of this organization; other than that, there is not much more positive to say.

Cons

Executive team is a mess. Bertelsman needs to clean house and get some people in here that have a solid vision that they can stick with. The company has taken a drastic turn for the worse since the current CEO has taken over. His poor people skills have become viral amongst the executive leadership team. There is no job security with this company, thay make rash decisions lay off people with no solid plans, whatever plans they did have change continually. The organization chart changes weekly (it seems). They planned a reduction in force for some people 12 - 18 months in advance pending new AI tools that did not deliver on time, yet people still lost their jobs. This is one company that is looking to replace whoever they can by AI. Company has lost any personal touch. RUN (do not walk) as fast as you can away from this company.

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