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      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

      Ratings by category

      3.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      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 2.7 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
      3.0
      Oct 17, 2024

      Rollercoaster experience. Exciting but a bit unpredictable.

      Product director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very friendly and collaborative colleagues, PTO, above market pay and benefits, some really knowledgeable and engaging managers. Some of Frontiers activities like their annual sustainability-related award and Frontiers in Young Minds give a sense of working for a better world. Management does All-Hands meetings frequently where they try to be transparent about where the company is. Middle management layer was amazing to work with and executives - especially the CEO - are great people who care about the company and its employees.

      Cons

      Constant change of focus and targets, a lot of micro management from the executive layer, struggling to let go control of every detail moving from a start-up to a larger company. There's a sense of being different from any other publisher that distracts from the mission and confuses staff from focusing on developing technology to help researchers or being a publisher with a high number of high-quality outputs. There's a general feeling of always being on fire-fighting mode and whenever executives look into something, everyone's attention goes there (and is taken away from everything else).

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      Frontiers Response
      1y
      Thank you for your review. We’re happy to hear that you enjoyed the collaborative atmosphere, and valued initiatives like the Frontiers Planet Prize, which are so important to our mission. We understand your concerns about rapid changes, but we are an agile organization in an ever-changing market - this means we need to adapt frequently to respond. Our leadership team works hard to balance having strategic oversight with empowering their teams to make decisions. We take on board your suggestion about wider external representation - thanks for sharing.
      1.0
      Oct 15, 2024

      Toxic

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Interesting journals and of a high standard

      Cons

      Toxic work environment and Experienced bullying

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      Frontiers Response
      1y
      Thank you for your comments. We take any allegations of bullying very seriously and would like to follow up. Please get in touch with feedback.ta@frontiersin.org to discuss it further.
      3.0
      Oct 7, 2024

      It was okay - a little chaotic but nice coworkers and usually the workload was manageable

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Nice people, work from home, nice company vibes

      Cons

      Upper management are not great, and there are some pretty discriminatory policies against taking on editors and authors from countries in the developing world -- everyone hated that when I was working there, and we all complained about it, but upper management would not change the policy because it was all about making higher profits. :(

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