IT departments are good, product departments are interesting - Senior Systems Engineer OCLC Employee Review

5.0
Apr 21, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits package is great. Management seems to take an interest in employees growth. The IT departments are broken down into specific and logical groups that are excellent at their jobs. Folks seem to really enjoy working here overall.

Cons

At times communication between product working groups is lax. While many folks take ownership there are times when there is no clear ownership of support issues reported by customers. At the moment there are allot of product changes in progress. Some of the projects are mash-ups of pre-existing products without proper integration design. This leads to a high number of support calls and difficulty in understanding the complete make up of the project sold to the customer.

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 13, 2026
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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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