Future Associate Editor reviews

3.0

8% would recommend to a friend

(52 total reviews)

Kevin Li Ying

100% approve of CEO

4% positive business outlook

Associate Editor employees have rated Future with 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 52 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Associate Editor professionals have an average working experience there. Future is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Associate Editor professionals compared to other employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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52 reviews
5.0
Apr 26, 2019
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Pros

Great benefits, an open and honest executive team, and the people are the best in the business. There's flexibility around working styles and lots of perks offered to keep morale up, like snacks, drinks on tap, social events and unlimited vacation. The executives are visible and offer and open door policy, so if you have a concern you can talk directly to them without booking an appointment. Zillah is a goddamn inspiration.

Cons

Lack of turnover in editorial jobs can make it hard to progress. In content creation people stick around for years, so can be hard to break through into management roles even if you're succeeding.

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Future Response
7y
Thank you for your review of Future and for sharing your experiences. We’re delighted to see how much you enjoy working here. We care deeply about continuous professional development, and want our people to feel like they have opportunities to grow and learn new skills. We have had a number of open editorial roles in the last few months on website brands such as GamesRadar and CyclingNews, and our magazines PC Gamer and MacFormat. We share a bi-weekly communications promoting these vacancies, which you should see in your inbox. We also encourage you to share any development ambitions with your Manager during 121s in the hope we can offer any coaching and exposure to open future opportunities to you. As always, please let the P&C team know if you have any further queries on this.
1.0
Oct 31, 2017

Doesn't care about content

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Pros

Standard corporate rewards package Day off on birthday Ground level staff are nice

Cons

Staff overworked Underpays staff Large scale frequent redundancies No editorial independence - constant interference and pressure from sales Frequently buys profitable companies and hollows them out Faux open office culture actually rife with politics

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Future Response
8y
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. Within our newly created People & Culture department, we are implementing a number of processes such as exit interviews and employee feedback interviews to understand how employees are feeling and what we can do to make any required improvements, we continue to act on this feedback. Growing the business via acquisition is one of our objectives and we consider it to be a really important part of our strategy. Unfortunately this occasionally results in duplications in roles and it has been necessary to amend the organisational structure as a result. We strive to be open and honest about these changes and try to keep impact to a minimum. We wish you all the best for your future endeavours.
2.0
Dec 19, 2016

For the young and for the brave

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Pros

If you’re beginning your media career, Future is a great company to join. It has some amazing brands across print, digital and the web. The company culture invokes a silicon-valley start-up feel: hard working, passionate and with free food. If you’re young and don’t have dependants, it’s an amazing place to work and to learn. Latterly, through acquisition, the firm has grown too.

Cons

Future is also a great company at which to end your career. Like silicon-valley start-ups it’s profits come at the expense of job security, pay and prospects. Agile means getting two people to do the job of five; lean means no budget; efficiency means constant reorganisations and round after round of redundancies. Meagre margins mean the company is forever looking for innovative ways to do more with less. Bottom line: If you’re young, join and learn. If you’ve got kids, the lingering spectre of redundancy eventually becomes unbearable. Whatever your age, keep your CV fresh at all times.

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Future Response
9y
Thank you kindly for taking the time to write a review here - we really appreciate it. Your positive feedback is warmly received and we think its great that our working environment is attractive for ambitious junior talent. We're sorry to hear that you felt your job-security was at risk as the company constantly evolves to stay ahead of the curve. We are very honest with the fact that we move quickly and we need to always be cost-effective and innovative but we would not want this to come at the expense of people feeling secure in their role and engaged in the work they are doing. Thank you for your feedback on this matter. We recently introduced a new company-wide profit share scheme so that every single one of our employees has the opportunity to share in our success and that recognises everyone's hard work contributes to our bottom line. We have recently acquired two businesses and are excited to add these new brands to our portfolio. We are always looking ahead and hope that all of our team are on the journey with us and feel engaged in the roles they are doing.
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