Senior Editor - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

2.0
28 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A venerable book publisher with a strong global sales base. One of the top academic publishers in the world with a truly impressive author group and wonderful colleagues.

Cons

Books program has all but been eliminated. Management seems adrift as to what direction to take the company next. A big gap between those working with clients and those working at the corporate strategy level meant that you could rarely make good on your promises of service to clients.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits for publishing.

Cons

Once of the most toxic work environments I've ever worked at. Upper management tears editors down if you are not a favorite. Favorites are chosen by metrics that do not exist, and are subjective and arbitrary. Wiley is losing money because brilliant, young editors leave due to no support and toxic work environments. Wiley Trade is essentially a hybrid publisher. Author's put a lot of money into their book -- too much. There is very very little marketing and publicity support for authors. But they brand as more than there actually is. All in all a very sad place to work and sad for authors.

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