Wolters Kluwer Senior Database Administrator Reviews

Likes

Great company culture and work life balance, get to work on latest technologies, continuous encouragement on innovation and using latest technologies in market, great job security (they don't ever fire anyone, even non performing ones), great people all over the world with helping attitude, less politics compared to other companies and decent salary and benefits. Hybrid mode of working.

Dislikes

Less salary compared to other product based companies. Promotions are hard to come by, it takes 7 to 10 years to get promoted to each next level and most people leave before that. Even if you perform consistently excellent, you won't get a promotion for at least 7 years, so very less opportunities to grow. Increment are decent but fixed at 9% to 12% rate. And it's difficult to change your division or even project if you get bored of working on same project year after year. They only move you to different project if there is an urgent business demand in that. IJPs are for namesake as your manager would never approve your movement (unless you are a non-performer and manager doesn't want you in his/her team)....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Development work

Dislikes

Micromanagement is more in wolters

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Likes

Good culture,value employee.

Dislikes

Not as such.

Likes

Product side projects has very good scope of learning and development. But the it back office application development doesn't have the same. Good place for a fresher to start their career not for the experienced people.

Dislikes

No personal development No work life balance Management is not strong enough to take firm descisions.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Hybrid working. Some departments and projects are ok.

Dislikes

There are people in devops teams doing outdated job and thinking they are rocket scientist. They have less work and still pretend lots of work is going on and fooling onsite management. There are people who are seating there as reporting managers and making money by just doing nothing.

Likes

Work life balance

Dislikes

Appraisal process

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Everything, nothing to dislike

Dislikes

Internal growth is bit slow

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

work life balance

Dislikes

poor salary appraisal

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Likes

Just that it’s an MNC and has associated perks. But the Gurgaon branch is toxic

Dislikes

School culture, lack of vision and only revenue oriented recognition. No map for employee promotion or growth.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Commitment to innovations and continuous improvement. WK fosters an environment where collaboration is encouraged and there is always room to share ideas and solutions. Supportive and inclusive work culture makes it easy to grow professionally.

Dislikes

While I appreciate many aspects of working for WK, one area for improvement could be streamlining some internal process. Occasionally, decision-making or approvals can take longer than expected, which can impact employee productivity. This is often due to the need of review and compliance.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

The pay and benefits. Also it’s one of the few International MNCs that actually act like MNCs in management.

Dislikes

Very limited products for India portfolio, decisions making is extremely long process,

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Collaboration & Leadership pushing your ideas - allowing you to experiment. They are okay with you failing, if any such situation arise, they will arise and support.

Dislikes

Collaboration. Teams do not come together to work on a problem, instead trying to solve the problem which is global problem.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

1) 2 days a week in office for my division with no minimum hours criteria 2) For teams with managers outside India, even 1 day in a quarter is fine as long as manager doesn't have any issues 3) Salary is good especially for freshers or 4-5 years experienced 4) Internship programs with good stipend, and interns are considered for hiring whenever freshers are required 5) Job is not stressful. Many employees are satisfied with their salary and work-life balance and plan to retire from this company. 6) Admin and IT team is supportive with quick responses....Read More

Dislikes

Lack of growth and performance is the biggest red-flag. 1) Lack of proper performance evaluation system. Managers rate whatever they feel and have a preoccupied notion of their team members. 2) Promotion depends on your manager rather than skills, tenure, and performance. A 4-yr experienced and a 12-yr experienced employee can be at the same job role. 3) While they boast about good IJP programs, they won't give more than 10% hike in internal job movements whereas will offer 30% or more for external candidates for same roles. 4) Even IJP program is not very good, as teams prefer to hire external candidates even when they have suitable team members in their own teams. Have noticed this as the main criteria of employees leaving due to job dissatisfaction and lack of trust from management. 5) Employees' contributions in additional responsibilities such as sports committees, CSR responsibilities, etc. has zero value as they aren't considered during promotions and appraisals. 6) Few teams have team members following hybrid policy regularly whereas some of their team members are completely working remotely. Even in these scenarios, there are no browny points to employees who visit office and naturally have more collaboration and are given more responsibilities in team activities because they are physically present. There is absolutely no benefit to employees who follow 2-days in office than their teammates who have the privilege of working remotely full-time. 7) Performance bonus percentage is not good since 2022. 8) WFH policy is not same across the company as few teams come to office hardly 2-3 times a month, whereas many teams are adamant about 2-3 days in the office with no exceptions. 9) HR is almost non-existent. There are neither skip-level meetings nor any regular employee engagement sessions (except annual survey forms)....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days a week from office except DXG and GBS division with 3 days a week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work Life Balance No MicroManagement in a few areas Fast paced company

Dislikes

* Some people take advantage of liberty and no one to question them. Only people who work are answerable. * Medical insurance should be little higher compare to market and inflation. * Salary should be as per market. * Some Management people should have some technical knowledge when they lead specific team area.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Flexibility

Dislikes

Work culture Micro management Promotions only for favourite over talented ones Fresher oriented teams , hardly any good seasoned professional or leader to learn form They prioritize quantity over quality. Leaders are only concerned about cost saving rather than value addition. Managers are running their own shops exploiting junior employees

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

The exposure to new technologies and the ability to make real impact without mandating years and preferring talent and skills

Dislikes

Certain departments in the company are deviating from the company policies and creating a bad work environment.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.