Frontiers reviews

2.7

34% would recommend to a friend

(562 total reviews)
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Kamila Markram

31% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Frontiers has an employee rating of 2.7 out of 5 stars, based on 562 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Frontiers employee rating is 27% below average for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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562 reviews
2.0
Apr 3, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The biggest pro was working remotely, but the new contracts are being done as hybrid. 28 off + 30 days working from another country is also cool.

Cons

The CEO has no experience managing a company this size. She is a scientist and that's it. She has random ideas that people have to execute, but at the same time she doesn't even know the most basic processes. Company structure changes every 6 months, bonus metrics always change. It is all done based on how desperate they are and what this desperation is related to. Bonus comment: we never get any bonus, and people don't have salary adjustments for 2 years, going to the third. Madness, right? Oh, before I forget, the career development there sucks! It is nearly impossible to progress.

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Frontiers Response
1y
Thanks for your feedback. We're glad you valued the flexibility of working remotely or from another country. Our CEO brings strong vision and expertise which has led the company to become one of the world's largest and most impactful academic publishers. Bonus metrics and compensation are regularly reviewed to align with business goals, and this is clearly communicated to all employees.
2.0
Apr 1, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good salary's and other benefits

Cons

Company performance concealed by management

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Frontiers Response
1y
Thank you and we're glad to hear you valued our range of benefits. However we're surprised to hear that you didn't feel informed about company performance - our performance is reported on regularly at the company all-hands meetings, through monthly email updates from the CEO and at department-level meetings. It's also documented and made available for all employees to read on our intranet.
3.0
Mar 28, 2025

Final Frontier

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people, and the tech

Cons

Really bad decision making when it came to hiring. Not just the rapid expansion during Covid which was more quantity over quality but the huge mistake of bringing in new Directors and high priced hires that did little to improve the company and were a costly mistake. Case in point before and during the start of Covid the company thrived and profits were up, after hiring increased substantially it was not sustainable. The directors were doing a decent job but once more directors and C level were brought in they did little to improve, if not made things worse and were paid a stupid amount for it. And don’t get me started on monthly pizza parties so to speak, terrible way to motivate people. From my personal experience I saw that there were people bought in that did nothing but milk the company for every penny, these same people that knew nothing about the company and did a poo job in their role, roles which should have been offered to existing employees in terms of promotion.

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Frontiers Response
1y
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. As a tech-first company it's nice to hear you valued our developments. We understand your concerns about rapid growth, Covid was an exceptional time, and we have certainly learnt from it.
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