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      Frontiers

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      Frontiers reviews

      2.8

      37% would recommend to a friend

      (562 total reviews)
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      Kamila Markram

      31% approve of CEO

      33% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.5

      Work/Life balance

      3.1

      Compensation and benefits

      2.8

      Culture & values

      2.5

      Career opportunities

      2.0

      Senior management

      Frontiers has an employee rating of 2.8 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 25% below average for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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      562 reviews
      2.0
      Feb 20, 2017

      Might be better....

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Very international, talented, young co-workers. Friendly work environment. Great chance for young graduates to get hands-on experience in scientific publishing.

      Cons

      Management lacks real skills in organizational management. Working across departments might be sometimes problematic. Too many technical and organizational changes within short term, simply hard to follow it. High turnover - lots of interns/newcomers and changing employees at certain departments. Professional development within company is limited. Negative complaints from contributors. It´s all about quantity rather than quality. Management faces an uphill battle, getting money out of others is never an easy task....but they know how to do it.

      5.0
      Feb 13, 2017

      A growing company

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Many possibilities to develop your career, lots of challenges, notable HR improvements over the past 3 years in terms of benefits, salaries and training. Talented and diverse co-workers, smart people and direct exposure to top professors and researchers. I find it bizarre that the negative Glassdoor reviews are either: - A blatant copy/paste of a post from a blogger who obsessively denigrates Frontiers with unsubstantiated claims. The review is very unlikely to be posted by a Frontiers employee - From people who claim that the company was sold, something which is pure imagination - From people who claim to be currently working at Frontiers and post very negative reviews. It's quite amusing such people are not able to make an impact with their skills, or to find a better position elsewhere.

      Cons

      I agree that the company should be careful with hiring too many PhDs. Work life is very different from doctoral studies, more structured and requires people to be able to cope with deadlines and the pressure that comes with it. Some parts of the platform are quite old and slow.

      1.0
      Feb 8, 2017

      Fear and loathing

      Ethics and integrity specialist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are definitely no pros.

      Cons

      - Frontiers is using massive email campaigns to recruit potential authors and is criticized for spamming. - Interns are recruited for a six month period and expected to write 200 emails a day, canvassing academics to submit papers to this for-profit open access publisher. - Frontiers intimidate their interns. After their internship ends, they are expected not to work or be otherwise involved in science publishing for at least one year. - The employees are instructed how to reply to annoyed academics and how to counter criticism of Frontiers peculiar peer review model. - They are also instructed to lie about the article rejection rate, which is not 20% as officially claimed, but 10%.

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