Still unequal for women - poor European pay compared to US colleagues - Product Manager Wiley Employee Review

3.0
27 Sept 2022
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Pros

Good work-life balance, flexible hybrid working, depending on your dept so long as the job is done it doesn't always matter when you do it. Friday afternoons have been given as either free or non-meeting time for most employees - essentially giving employees a half day back. A temporary measure that most employees would love to become permanent.

Cons

A MASSIVE gender pay gap that was identified years ago and still little has been done about it. The best way to get ahead at Wiley is to be a straight, white man. Still. Senior jobs and managerial roles occupied by men who hire more men. Often men they worked with in another company. Leadership is starting to look like clones of checked shirted, khaki pants men. It's a massive morale issue for women working at this company, but one that the mainly male leaders won't or can't acknowledge. Claiming they can't use any form of positive discrimination even though they clearly do when it comes to hiring old college buddies or colleagues. Compensation for Non-US colleagues is far less than US based colleagues.

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5.0
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Pros

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.

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits for publishing.

Cons

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.

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