Nice people, good work... a little political. - Content Manager OCLC Employee Review

3.0
Jun 29, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

If you are interested in a long career with libraries, this is a great place to network with librarians around the world. For the most part, the people that work at OCLC are nice, dedicated, hard working individuals doing meaningful work.

Cons

It can be political and hierarchical. As with most organizations, there are good managers and bad managers. Ask around about who the person you will be working for and general political nature of your department. OCLC is based in Dublin, Ohio. If you are in a branch office, be sure to review the complete compensation package. The compensation for "branch" offices has not always been competetive.

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Pros

Great team and work environment Interesting work day to day Working here feels meaningful

Cons

Compensation can be lower than average

2.0
Jun 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits, particularly the thrift plan, are good for as long as they still exist. The employees are generally smart and caring people.

Cons

Upper management is neither good nor trustworthy. To go into details would most likely violate this website's TOS. Trust them not to tell you the truth, trust them to blame you if they can save themselves for another year. Any stories you've heard about a great place to work are based on old data. That company no longer exists. While layoffs have always been a threat, employees are constantly on edge now and having the CEO tell them if they want to stay on they shouldn't make trouble does not help, to say the least If you get hired here, understand that this cannot be a long term destination. Get your experience, have an exit plan, don't get comfortable and fade into mediocrity because that is your future, and that's if you are lucky. I just want to add that everything the other reviews say about the president is true. He absolutely did mock employee responses to an opinion survey at a town hall.

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