Frontiers reviews

- Pay is very low by Swiss standards - Serious lack of transparency about how targets especially for 2020 are decided upon and the proposed plan for 2020 lacks grounded strategies - Some managers don't seem to know what they're doing and are happy to approve large email campaigns without much consideration of strategic input or forward planning from sister departments Eg. I have seen presentations by a head of department that do not make scientific sense and the style of delivery is far too casual and gung-ho - Job roles constantly change and little to no input is sought from those who are the most effected - Several internal promotions over the last few years and these have lowered the standards in some teams and created an unrealistic idea that a promotion is guaranteed if you stay for more than a year - Some upper management have very little experience and have only ever progressed within Frontiers and don't bring much from the wider publishing industry - Huge focus on proving your self worth and a number of managers have very little actual management experience - Frontiers fails to retain people and this is a sign that career development is not a priority for them Eg. They do not have a retention strategy - Reactive hiring processes and some departments over hire and end up moving people - with very little warning - to portfolios that they have no connection with - Communication strategies lag behind company change when it should be the other way around - Mixed experience with the HR department; some are not very experienced and I have heard feedback from some on other people's interviews which I should not have been privy to

- unprofessional attitude towards employees with ineffective HR department - middle management kissing up to senior management, blindly agreeing to everything (which is 1 strategy used for 10 years) - incredibly high staff turnover. Within <1 year, I have had 5 people move in and out within the same small sub-team. In my professional career, I have never seen a firm spending so much $ for employee retention to still result in such a degree of overall employee’s dissatisfaction. - management is unable to apologize for any mishaps and is extremely defensive - still low salary compared to swiss standard (very few swiss employees willing to work here).