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      PLOS

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      PLOS reviews

      3.1

      49% would recommend to a friend

      (113 total reviews)

      Alison Mudditt

      72% approve of CEO

      38% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      2.7

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      PLOS has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 113 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PLOS 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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      113 reviews
      3.0
      Jul 10, 2018

      OK

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good people, good hours.

      Cons

      Bad middle management confused ideas on the future and what they should focus on.

      2.0
      Feb 7, 2016

      Be Wary

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      PLOS has a good mission. The people who end up working there are young and believe in what they're doing. Management nominally wants to leverage this.

      Cons

      I left PLOS because it was not a good place to grow. There was a highly bureaucratic system for determing company wide policy that often left employees clueless and poorly motivated. Add to that a cliquish work environment that verges on toxic, and you have good reason to leave while you still can. PLOS likes to hire outside contractors to do work, but this this often leads to abandonded and poorly understood technology/workflows.

      1.0
      Jun 14, 2015

      Disappointing and sometimes scary

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Cool mission and there are some really amazing people here. People work hard but also have fun and most of the staff get along really well with each other.

      Cons

      Badly managed, people disappear with no explanation, projects and priorities change all the time again without any explanation, C-level people don't seem to know what they are doing and like to hold a lot of secret meetings. Nothing real ever gets communicated to the staff from them or the Board. All the best staff are talking about leaving or have left.

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