Future reviews

3.2

44% would recommend to a friend

(713 total reviews)

Kevin Li Ying

60% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Future has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 713 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Future employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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713 reviews
2.0
Aug 14, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Since the management structure is so thin -- as are all levels of the company -- you'll have plenty of chances to put your own ideas into practice (if you can find time to do so), since there are few managers from which you'll need approval. There are many, many talented people to work with -- but since everyone is working at 150% capacity, you'll not have much time to get much benefit from their smarts. The benefits package is flat-out astonishing; the fact that Future US is owned by a European company shows -- in Europe, health care is a right, not a privilege

Cons

The workload is crushing. Not that hard work is a bad thing, but the amount of output that management demands from each employee at Future US dulls creativity and quality. In point of fact, "quality" is not something that management cares about all that much. The general attitude that the Future US management has towards its readership is that readers are basically sheep that want -- or even need -- to be snowed by flashy, shallow coverage of trends and "shiny things." As a result, most Future US properties have become formulaic -- which is actually okay for the workers, since they're working so hard that they don't have the time or the mental energy to think of anything original.

5.0
Jul 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Company generally is very good about avoiding overtime. The place is fairly empty at 5:30pm, and almost no one is around at 6pm. Engineers for public facing sites may work late before launches, but that is to be expected. There are a lot of different publishing groups, and moving to other groups (publishing or non publishing) can happen.

Cons

You have to pay attention to how well your group is performing, poor sales can hurt. However, this is true for sales dependent groups at any company.

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