Elsevier Employee Reviews
Out of 23867 Elsevier employee reviews, 93% were positive. The remaining 7% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Elsevier improve their work culture. The IT team, with 95% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Elsevier compared to all other departments at the company. The Design team offered the most constructive feedback, with 12% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Review from Executive Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Review from Product Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
I am very happy and excited to work here. This was my dream come true.
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Supportive colleagues, manager, and open discussion, respecting each other, reasonable customer.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 2 days ago
What do you like best about the leadership team?
The team believes in inclusion and every single suggestion counts
Review from Executive Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Timely communication, clarity, and decisiveness.
Review from Product Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Focussed and visionary, planning and implementation
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Focus on organizational growth areas which helps to achieve organizational goals which in term helps to improve each employee's growth as well. Employee caring and make sure the team is well balanced.
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Openness, Honesty, Equality and Diversity.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 2 days ago
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Leadership needs to foster greater empathy and transparent communication with staff. While Elsevier has historically maintained an exceptional work culture, it has steadily declined due to frequent system changes, heavy workloads, growing job insecurity, and an eroded work-life balance.
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 7 days ago
Reduce layoffs. Make clear how headcount will be managed if AI is used so much for automation as operating at lower cost is one of the goals. Give more tangible and meaningful benefits to Chennai publishing division staff. Welcome kit for software dept varies wrt to publishing division
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 10 days ago
need to better selective teamwork
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 10 days ago
Respect experience and provide equal opportunity
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 10 days ago
Please acknowledge and address the real problems in certain regions.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 10 days ago
What is the best part about your compensation package?
PF contributions, take home salary
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Basic, Bonus and other perks in the form of gifts
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Paid fairly as the result comes.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Competitive salary compared to similar companies where I've worked
Review from Marketing Dept · Posted 3 days ago
Thirteen months, once a year
Review from Product Dept · Posted 4 days ago
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
The increase in salary yearly as increment
Review from Executive Dept · Posted 2 days ago
I feel my compensation does not fully reflect my growing responsibilities, workload, and contributions. A fair salary review aligned with my performance, experience, and market standards would help me feel more valued and motivated.
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 7 days ago
The pay scale needs to be considerably revised to match the current economic times and steep increase in workload
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 7 days ago
We are working on double shifts almost everyday due to high workload
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 7 days ago
I have an advanced degree and bring a large amount of knowledge but do not believe I am paid what that is worth. I would feel better if I were paid more. Some aspects of the benefits also seem unnecessarily penalizing, such as paying an extra, recurring fee for a spouse to access healthcare.
Review from Product Dept · Posted 8 days ago
What are some of the best things about your team?
Trust and support the teammates provides
Review from Executive Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Highly talented people who are willing to give their best for the team.
Review from Product Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Supportive, friendly, empathetic, Fun to work with
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Friendly, helping nature, guidance etc.
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Respecting each other and very professional people.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 2 days ago
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
More collaboration and in person team charter days would make it better to interact with the peers
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 10 days ago
I believe we could work even better together by providing direct and constructive feedback to one another. Open communication helps improve collaboration, align expectations, and ensure everyone's contributions are accurately understood and recognized.
Review from Customer Success Dept · Posted 11 days ago
Work doesnt leave much time to socialize.
Review from Operations Dept
More structured / focussed communication, and structured training / onboarding for junior team members.
Review from Product Dept
They are often overwhelmed with work so I do not want to bother them.
Review from Legal Dept
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
The most positive thing is that everyone is treated equal
Review from Executive Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Fairness, meritocracy, lack of toxicity, positive culture etc.
Review from Product Dept · Posted 2 days ago
supportive, professional, right attitude, welcoming
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Work ambience, friendly colleagues, comfort and safety
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Diversity, Openness, Honesty, and Equality
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 2 days ago
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Identify employees’ skil
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 7 days ago
Better recognition of employee contributions, fair compensation, transparent communication, and equal growth opportunities would improve company culture. Encouraging work-life balance and valuing employee feedback would also create a more positive and motivating workplace.
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 7 days ago
Too many meetings and bureaucracy to go through, which slow us down. We want to move fast and ship things that are ready, but we have so many approvals to go through that it seems like we struggle to stay competitive with more nimble companies.
Review from Product Dept · Posted 9 days ago
More integration between colleagues from the same country.
Review from Engineering Dept · Posted 9 days ago
Better communication, clearer priorities, and realistic workloads. More transparency in decisions and stronger cross-team collaboration.
Review from Product Dept · Posted 10 days ago
What did you like most about the interview process?
The interviewers were welcoming and approachable, making the conversation comfortable and giving me a clear understanding of the role.
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 10 days ago
HR behaves oddly. Some people continuously apply for 5-6 years to get selected. Is this done on purpose to maintain the premiumness - not sure. Rejection reasons are not communicated. All HR work is outsourced, the third party needs more training and fixing
Review from Product Dept
The interviewers were very friendly and open and I did nit need to wait for their decision long
Review from Sales Dept
To be honest, it was many years ago, so I'm not sure how relevant it would be now.
Review from Communications Dept
HR is good about scheduling and logistics
Review from Marketing Dept
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
The flexibility to work in office
Review from Executive Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Serving authors and helping my team's goals.
Review from Product Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Completing targets, seeing manuscript go to its completion
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Completing the tasks and learn new things
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 2 days ago
Meeting with my colleague even from the different divisions.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 2 days ago
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Elsevier needs to go back on how it used to be, how it treated the employees with respect. There is zero empathy and the remuneration percentage is coming down each year. Promotion percentages are too low.
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 7 days ago
The company's products continue to experience recurring issues, and improvements are being made far too slowly. As a result, customers are losing confidence in the company. The company should focus on making meaningful improvements to its products and delivering real value to customers, rather than
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 10 days ago
Recent restructuring activity has created uncertainty for many employees. While change is sometimes necessary, transparency, consistency, and a stronger focus on retaining experienced, high-performing talent would help maintain engagement, trust, and organisational knowledge.
Review from Operations Dept · Posted 11 days ago
The pay needs to be corrected.
Review from Sales Dept · Posted 11 days ago
There is too much interference internally due to disorganized divisions and departments. Internal departments need data available so they know whom to contact when issues arise instead of looping in multiple colleages.
Review from Customer Success Dept · Posted 11 days ago
What do you like best about your company?
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
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