Springer Nature reviews

The starting salary for a person with a PhD is lower than that of an academic PostDoc position in Germany. Unrealistic goals set by superiors and high workloads paired with trust-based working times lead to lots of unpaid/unrecognized overtime and pretty low morale. You will have very nice, but mostly very unhappy colleagues at Springer Nature. Chances of being promoted and get a better salary are not high and depend quite heavily on how much unpaid overtime you are ready to do to meet the mentioned unrealistic goals. Other than that, annual salary increases are lower than inflation rates in Germany. Frustration from costantly increasing pressure/demands without any parallel increase in job satisfaction. My advice to people with a PhD/PostDoc in Life Sciences and leaving in Germany is to find something else outside of the publishing business. You did not spend 30+ years studying to end up having problems affording the rising rents of Berlin, right? You will be paid better elsewhere, and will develop a career profile that is likely easier to sell on the job market.

Low pay against industry standards and a reluctance from HR to acknowledge and address this. Low morale since the merger, with a high staff turnover, lack of development opportunities and constant restructures. Most of the inspirational (and female) senior leaders have now left the company, with those at the top very much set in their ways and part of an old boys club.