Editor - Editor Wiley Employee Review

2.0
28 Apr 2015
Recommend
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Pros

35 hour work week, a casual office environment, reasonable workload, low-stress office, ample vacation and holidays, and good work/life balance (the company encouraged employees to develop and foster outside interests).

Cons

Virtually no room for promotion or growth, departments are siloed, management resists change, creativity is not encouraged (I've worked for four publishing companies and this was the most corporate and least innovative/creative of all of them). Then Wiley went through a massive restructuring where many jobs were outsourced, eliminated, and offshored. The restructuring took over 2 years and slowly more and more people were let go. It felt like a slow death and killed office morale, and upper management seems disinterested in revitalizing it.

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5.0
18 Jun 2026
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Pros

Nice coworkers and managers, work-life balance, smart people and industry, opportunities to grow skillset. If you volunteer for opportunities, you will be supported and will learn a lot about the industry.

Cons

Pay and hybrid office work

2.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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