Elsevier Sr. Software Engineer reviews

4.0

87% would recommend to a friend

(64 total reviews)

Kumsal Bayazit

100% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Elsevier with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 64 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Elsevier is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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64 reviews
1.0
Aug 22, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good Benefits. Ok Salary. Networking and design.

Cons

Elsevier is cheap. Elsevier doesn't like to spend money. Cheap cheap very cheap pinny pinching cheap. You get what you pay for. They partnered with a non profit to build a data center. They also kept the head quarters in Dayton for LexisNexis instead of moving it to Columbus or NY like Bloomberg Law. The Dayton campus is really run down and dumpy. Even NCR left Dayton. They like to spend the money on acquisitions instead of infrastructure and talent or people. Ohio State University rates higher than University of Dayton or Wright State and they employ a lot of UD people instead of employing Ohio State University or Clemson grads like Emily Thompson who won the Goldwater and the Astronaut Award. University of Michigan rates higher than University of Dayton but so much for talent. They were also not supportive of innovation. The Bitcoin Asic was a big opportunity they missed out on and it cost them 100 million+. They also liked code reviews instead of using the agile model. People would fight in the code reviews.

3.0
Sep 9, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- Benefits are great. - Job has a solid work/life balance.

Cons

- The company is a publishing company that thinks its a tech company. This leads to short sighted requirements and inadequate infrastructure support. - Constantly changing org structure. Significant realignment of personnel and objectives every other year. - Undefined career progression. Every developer is a Senior Engineer. There are no Junior Engineers and a handful of Principle Engineers but the work is all the same. - Good projects go to Philly. STL gets stuck with fringe/maintenance work.

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