AEGIS MEDIA - Anonymous employee Scientific American Employee Review

Amazing work culture, people, and opportunities to learn science journalism

Pay is not great and you get no benefits as an intern

Hybrid work schedule. Smart, mostly hardworking people. New editor-in-chief has a strategy.

Cannot stress enough how negative the business outlook is. And as a second class citizen of the parent company Springer Nature there is really nowhere for you to go if and when this subsidiary publication goes the way of the dodo and/or additional layoffs are needed to survive. It's a crowded space in a shrinking market (see Popular Science, New Scientist, Science News, American Scientist, for example) and the product is poorly differentiated with several politically related embarrassments to its name. It enjoys a modicum of the respect and attention it once did in the age before social media.