Horrible Legacy Management Severely Undermines Otherwise Good Company
Pros
Great internal resources for knowledge sharing, networking, and professional growth. Many smart, creative, helpful colleagues ready to help or talk. Opportunities given to professionals without specific experience in publishing.
Cons
Note: I was placed on "performance-based" probation 7 WEEKS after start date and TERMINATED a couple weeks after that, simply because my team is managed by a poisonous duo who effectively crushed my career at a giant publisher because they didn't like how I fit as the new hire on their team. I was told by HR upon termination that I was not being fired through any fault of my own and they would not appeal any Unemployment Insurance claim; this was delivered as a kind of apology for the behavior of my two bosses. It seems that your experience at Springer Nature is entirely dependent on whether the senior management on your team is any good, which seems to be uncommon. In my case, it was the worst management I've ever seen or been victim to in a professional environment. Vicious, intolerant, guileless, and untrustworthy. It felt like working in the USSR, except somehow an even more bitter and cynical culture/mood. To summarize my awful bosses: Remote management team, who haven't worked with others in a meaningful context in decades and don't reside anywhere near the New York offices, are straight up clueless in terms of interpersonal relationships and team-building in the workplace. They proudly convey a mean-spirited, bullying, highly micro-managerial, "discipline and punish" mindset that was explained as "old school" and "how they were brought up in the industry". I have no idea who or what school of thought they were referring to, but they regularly ridiculed the senior management from other teams for not "earning" their seniority the way it is supposed to be earned because those managers/directors had reached milestones at a younger age than they had. I could go on for a lifetime, but AVOID any role at Springer Nature that is seemingly always on job boards or, after speaking with an HR Recruiter and asking questions about the vacancy, it is a position for which they've had trouble finding the right candidate. Ask as much as you can about the composition of the team and try to get on one that isn't full of cynical "old-school" types who are protecting their tenuous, dusty hold on their respective teams until they can retire in 5-7 years. Also, the pay is quite low.
