Springer Nature reviews

4.0

84% would recommend to a friend

(1,530 total reviews)

Frank Vrancken Peeters

82% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Springer Nature has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,530 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Springer Nature employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Feb 4, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Flexi hours, salary credited on time. Employees are usually not asked to stretch beyond working hours and working over weekends is incentivised.

Cons

1. No transparency with respect to the performance of the company. This leads to a lot of rumors and hearsay among team members. 2. No interaction between senior management and associates on the floor and there's favoritism galore!! 3. Managers walk around with a halo over their head and are very unapproachable. 4. KRAs do not make any sense and most of the time, the team leads cannot justify the ratings they give you. 5. Work is very monotonous and it's such a niche area that your chances of getting another job anywhere else are diminished. 6. Canteen facilities are pathetic, food available is extremely substandard and overpriced. Vendors get changed every 6 months. 7. Senior Management is obsessed with the usage of mobile phones on the floor. So, they do not want people to use cell phones but there is no landline extension where you will be reachable for the entire 9 hours 45 minutes you are expected to work in a day. 8. Attrition is very high and this demotivates the team.

3.0
Jan 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Flexible work/life balance - Promote from within - co-workers are friendly and overall work environment is very pleasant. - The job is often "what you make of it" and there is room for creativity and input. - Professional development courses are offered (Sales/Marketing Academy), so you get trained on skills that are transferable to other companies. - Company is strong and looked to as an industry leader - Librarians love our products. - great insurance/retirement benefits

Cons

Communication: During the recent merger with Nature, management remained silent and did not acknowledge overall sense of dread/fear over changes to come. Even when there was no news, a regular (monthly? quarterly?) update from upper management just to say, "hey, there's still no news, hang in there/thanks for your patience & we understand you're anxious" would have gone a very long way. Money: Pay is extremely low compared to market rate of similar jobs at competitor companies. If you move up to a different position, Springer is EXTREMELY unwilling to give significant or acceptable pay raises. The only way to be paid what you're worth is to leave and come back, which a few people have done. Which leads me to... Turnover: Springer's not a bad place to work, but recent years have seen a very high turnover rate in the sales teams and it is affecting our reputation. A couple of people who have been put into management roles have been very aggressive/toxic to their staff, which might be one reason. Another is the reticence to give talent reasonable pay raises and promotions.

1.0
Nov 3, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Salary with no variable component for Technology division

Cons

- For a BA, its important to have domain expertise. Crest is in "Publishing" & its extremely difficult to find any reputed company for job switch in the same domain in India - No job security - Rare & very short onsite opportunities (Max 1 OR 2 weeks) - Internal politics is ruining the culture of the company

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