Wolters Kluwer reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(4,073 total reviews)
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Stacey Caywood

85% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Wolters Kluwer has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 4,073 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wolters Kluwer employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Feb 8, 2019

Business Cultural Wasteland

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Pros

Many of the people in the trenches are hard-working, intelligent, and great to work with.

Cons

Management (Executive and below) are some of the worst I've seen anywhere. Major decisions in the Wichita division are often made with little insight into the impact on customers or employees. Employee's are basically treated like they have little to no value by management. 3 week notice lay-offs announced to impacted employees 3 weeks before Xmas despite great company financials. Most laid off seem to be older, long-term employees who have given years of loyal service to the company. On top of that, compensation is sub-standard.

1.0
Jan 14, 2019

If you want your career to go somewhere you get out

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Pros

Good work life balance. Decent benefits but pay is way below market. Can coast for a while.

Cons

This place is an absolute disaster. Senior management is completely clueless to the trends in the industry and how to lead the transformation to digital. They will become a has been if they don't change. Not a good place for your career long term. It takes a very long time to get anything done, a very slow moving place with lots of cooks in the kitchen. You will work with lots of C grade people. Senior management not open to ideas that differ from theirs. Unreasonable goals and targets without giving people the right tools/plans to help them achieve. They do not respect people and treat them quite badly. Too much outsourcing.

2.0
Apr 5, 2018

Don't work here!

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Pros

Friendly employees. Very good products.

Cons

CCH has a reputation for constantly buying out smaller companies and turning them into a complete mess. The company is like a bull in a china shop - they acquire smaller and successful companies, and then slowly begin to destroy them with meaningless rules, bureaucracy and little concern for the employees or customers. Most long-term employees will admit privately that this is the case and hope that things will eventually change. But they never do. Other negative comments include - 1). Too many lengthy meetings. 2). No real leadership in the mid-level managerial positions. 3). They don't take the time to listen to their customers until it's too late, i.e., when sales drop. 4). They constantly do "reorgs" which is another way of saying they are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, rather than focus on core issues and problems. 5). They set very high and unrealistic quotas for the sales team, but provide little marketing support or leadership to help salespeople achieve their goals.

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