Frontiers reviews

Changes happen sometimes chaotically and communication on quick strategy changes is sometimes confusing.

I can't overstate how toxic of an environment Frontiers is. The senior management are moderately to completely incompetent and don't understand the day to day activities of the staff as the remote working situation means that they are all based in Switzerland with their employees spread across Europe. This physical distance creates a gulf of communication and understanding reflected in the absolutely awful employee satisfaction survey scores. All internal promotions are based on how much you suck up to other more senior staff and categorically not your competency or experience. For example, several people in their young twenties with less than two years working experience ANYWHERE were regularly being promoted to being people managers after having a few chats with other managers. Aside from the toxic politics, the work is mind numbingly boring with every day the exact same. The targets they set are unreasonable, and everyone knows it, with most people only realistically able to achieve around 60% of the numbers senior management asked for. Lower level management are often nice but don't care very about you as it's entirely online, so you don't really develop any relationship with your manager or coworkers at all. In the year and a half I was there, I was moved across three different teams with three managers and the team was renamed. Change is very much a constant at Frontiers, but not in a thought about way. More a haphazard reactive attempt to try to achieve unrealistic targets with zero thought into how these initiatives would actually be enacted.