Nice hours, good co-workers but awful leadership team - Anonymous employee OCLC Employee Review

2.0
Dec 7, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great work schedule flexibility in many areas, good pay;noble mission;some great co-workers. If you come from cataloging or librarian background you will fit in to quirky culture. Some of the tech and product areas have good middle managers.

Cons

Inefficient org structures with siloed accountability. Top heavy, arrogant mostly home grown disconnected senior management team. Culture is really old school and completely library focused. Inability to execute on plans and products due to lack of skills and accountability at senior exec level. Middle manager burn out is inordinately high due to irrationality of plans and delivery schedules. If you come from a rational for-profit background you will find the culture maddening for at least the first 5 years.

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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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