PLOS reviews

3.1

49% would recommend to a friend

(113 total reviews)

Alison Mudditt

72% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

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 Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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113 reviews
1.0
Jul 18, 2016

great idea, poor in practice

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Some good young people working hard, most the in house editors and a decent managers The mission and goals

Cons

some things have changed since I left but a bunch of people still there say its no different: the work environment is toxic lot of upper level people do next to nothing and wage petty wars no vision or active steps to get there from the top down publish a ton of garbage which is ok i guess, but makes the org less desirable for real research papers product team is joke any upper level person with a brain left for greener pastures

1.0
Mar 30, 2013

Absolutely toxic environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Workers start out enthusiastic about science and open access Decent benefits

Cons

Department managers would rather have public fights with other department managers or contractors that belong on a school ground than behave professionally. Management is either completely unavailable or micro-managing. Backstabbing by management is a constant. This behavior pits middle management and staff against each other. Even though you're officially on a "team", there is no teamwork, and most employees are out for themselves at the expense of others. If you have allies senior to you, you can literally get away with anything. If you have no allies or step out of line, you may as well start looking for another job. Pay is about 20k less than average for the same position at another company, unless you're in upper management or an executive, in which case you're making six figures. Pathetic raises; you work long hard hours to be able to go out to a modest dinner once more per pay period, if you receive the maximum raise.

2.0
Apr 29, 2022

wouldn't do it again

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

I worked with interesting people

Cons

Too much work for too little money. Many editors were doing work from home outside of job hours to try and keep up, but most were hesitant to admit it.

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