Springer Nature reviews

Low salary (less than a post-doc!), with no hope of monetary increments for your hard work or overtime you do. This is not the place for people who are self-motivated, driven and determined because such efforts are not recognised. Though, according to the contract, the working hrs is ~37, it is impossible to conduct tasks in this time-frame. As such you end up working much more. A lot is asked of you, in order to be promoted for which you have to work extra and do various other projects. This place is good for 1-2 yrs but would be quite demoralising and demotivating beyond this.

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.