Future Editor-In-Chief reviews

3.0

8% would recommend to a friend

(55 total reviews)

Kevin Li Ying

100% approve of CEO

4% positive business outlook

Editor In Chief employees have rated Future with 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 55 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Editor In Chief professionals have an average working experience there. Future is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Editor In Chief professionals compared to other employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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55 reviews
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
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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.
3.0
Sep 16, 2015
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Pros

Generous health benefits Friendly work environment Shuttle to work and ample parking Ability to freelance for multiple internal publications

Cons

Office is in distant office park Company seems unstable and future is uncertain Lack of synergy between publications

3.0
Sep 6, 2015
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Pros

Talented people all around, relaxed dress and conduct codes, relatively nice office space with a beautiful view

Cons

Huge disconnect between management and basically everyone else. I routinely worked nights and weekends while managers walked out at 5pm on the dot beaming, "Have a nice weekend!" as they went. This would have been way less galling had they made better financial decisions. Remember Ball Hype? Of course not. So why did Future pay a million dollars for it? Just one example out of many options.

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