Elsevier reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(2,195 total reviews)

Kumsal Bayazit

89% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Elsevier has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,195 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Elsevier employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
4.0
Mar 11, 2018

Lots of exciting work.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Real opportunities to help outcomes in Research and Health by developing good products. Using new technologies such as AI, ML & Big Data. Friendly and smart people.

Cons

Sometimes getting agreement to start new things is harder than it should be due to slow decision making processes .

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Elsevier Response
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Thank you for your review. At Elsevier, shared decision making or getting agreement is particularly important and takes longer, especially when the decision to be made involves people globally, our values or principles.
3.0
Mar 3, 2018

Not for the ambitious at heart

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Pros

Flexible work environment and very pro work/life balance and family. Working from home/remotely is generally acceptable. Health benefits are comprehensive but the costs have been increasing significantly every year. It’s a culturally diverse staff. The company is very committed (in theory) to helping advance STM. It’s a great place if you aren’t the ambitious type, like to fly under the radar, and want to put your career on cruise control.

Cons

Pay isn’t competitive and it is a very matrixed organization so things move a glacier pace and rumors and re-orgs happen all the time. The systems we rely on to get things done are legacy, band-aided and don’t talk to each other. On top of having to spend all day working on “stone tablets” and reports no one knows what to do with, many departments are under resourced and forced to use tools and rely on processes that do not work for their specific customer needs (e.g., what works for researchers doesn’t work for clinicians). Finally, you will be expected to work on a laptop that is older than you.

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