Try to avoid joining WK India - Senior Manager Wolters Kluwer Employee Review

2.0
Feb 3, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

compensation these days is good (no benefits as such), negotitate for nice compensation when joining, recruitment team is very cooperative and will give you good offers, once you join they have very restricted guidelines for compensation (their compensation policy is bad?!) (I am seeing many of my peers who are dedicated to the organization and looking outside desperately due to compensation) work profile is fine and can spend some years to work on unique products that they have. (not a long term company because growth oppt. are lesser)

Cons

I have been in WK for more than 5 years, come with 18+ years of exp and good to work for such a company considering my technical role and support from my US leadership. I seriously dont like the approach by leaders in India. They even lay off employees randomly without solid reasons, they practice things like layoffing role and then hiring again for that role from outside, same thing they do with HR team also, they like it to keep changing HR members, i have heard that members in HR also who get sacked/asked to leave saying role eliminate but they hire a new person from outside in that profile again, such malpractices followed across the company by HR leaders. One of my friends who was impacted said at least they paid him really nice. There are zero benefits and they need to benchmark benefits and practices because what they have currently is fooling external people. They just keep changing policies every year. HR policies for leaves have changed twice in my year of service and I got to know that policies and HR team keeps changing, now it seems that have started to cut down everything, one of the very very few companies who do not have COVID leaves for its employees (it was there is 2021, they cancelled it for 2022:) Paid leaves are given like monthly EMI installments. Same with insurances, TPA kept changing every every year (this year again changed). Many employees are having problems claiming amounts. This company dont have any other benefits like New joiners welcome kit, COVID leaves support, PPF, NPS, will not give Sodexo physical cards to new joiners etc. Also heard that leadership are scared of HR to even ask these things. Pathetic policies being run in India where growth is the highest, they will realize these failed things after 1-2 years, old school leaders (like a failed startup/private run).

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Pros

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Cons

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Wolters Kluwer Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s great to hear that the product culture, autonomy, and exposure to meaningful challenges are coming through so strongly, along with the support for growth into leadership roles. Creating an environment where people feel trusted, can contribute, and continue to develop is a key part of how product teams succeed. We appreciate you taking the time to share this perspective. – Your employer branding team at Wolters Kluwer
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Pros

Wolters Kluwer has some genuinely amazing people working for them and offers flextime for good work/life balance

Cons

Recently began pushing to "inhouse-outsource" as much of the core business functions as possible to their new service center in Pune, India. While many of my Indian colleagues are exceptional people, the constant turnover with overseas contractors and haphazard hiring and training process means that many of these staff members are woefully underprepared and set up for failure. As an example, I had to train my Indian contractor replacement before I left - while he was a lovely person, he had zero training in or experience with US payroll, benefit or tax structures despite that being approximately 50% of my core job function.

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