The work is great, the company is woeful - Editorial Springer Nature Employee Review

3.0
Sep 9, 2017
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Pros

Great work, interesting, the chance to be creative and to share ideas.

Cons

The corporate side of the company is looking in trouble. The takeover of Macmillan by Springer meant that everything is now done "the Springer way". Now the upper management are being packed with Elsevier crones, so the company is aiming to gouge more and more profit while cutting quality. The IT system is a joke... there is not a week that goes by when nature.com doesn't go down or email goes down or wifi goes down. Crappyy outsourced helpdesk with slow response time. Too much corporate crap overwhelms everyday work.

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Amazing company to work for and great people

Cons

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Springer Nature Response
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts from our New York office. We have a great team; our purpose and culture continue to be 'stand out' and some of the reasons so many colleagues stay with us longer term. We are collaborative and progressive and everyday we contribute to learnings for generations to come.
3.0
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Pros

Good to work and get experience

Cons

Not great to grow there

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Springer Nature Response
1w
Thank you for sharing your review. We kicked off our second Career Growth Week so far this year with a focus on feedback which underpins growth at every level. Alongside the flagship sessions, colleagues took part in a wide range of virtual events across the week. These included popular sessions like building skills through feedback, Forward Talk, AI-powered feedback, “expert” careers and mentoring panels, the Facilitation Marathon, and a LinkedIn personal branding workshop, as well as practical learning through the Level up: boost your skills and Talent Attraction sessions. Perhaps look out for the next one which will be in a few months time. Colleague development is core to our organisation.
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