great people, poor leadership - Anonymous employee OCLC Employee Review

3.0
Jun 28, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people working at OCLC as smart, mission-driven and nice. Working on behalf of libraries is satisfying. Pay is decent and benefits are above average. I have decent work-life balance most of the time.

Cons

Senior leadership is micromanaging, even of workers 3-4 levels below, demonstrating a lack of trust. That's mutual, as workers are unlikely to speak up about problems for fear of repercussions. While leaders are micromanaging, who is being strategic? Product launches routinely fail and must be relaunched, due in part to unwillingness of staff to speak frankly without fear. Unclear how the VP Product is still there after several losses.

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Cons

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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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