Springer Nature reviews

New technology management behaves like headless chickens, changing plans every other week and failing to set the company on a course of delivering any value whatsoever, yet senior executives lap up their excuses and promises of a better future "soon" instead of listening to the talented folks on the ground who can see that everything is on fire. Uncertainty is rife throughout the organisation, with no decisions being made and nothing but uncertain promises everywhere. Integration decisions are being made only based on input from people with no high- or low-level understanding of existing systems. Years of great work that delivered consistent results and exceeded all stakeholder expectations is being scrapped in favour of an unproven and hilariously misengineered magic new platform that is suffering constant delays and setbacks. Technology staff brought in since the merger is utterly lacking in diversity and feels like an almost Silicon Valley-esque boys club. Practically all of management comes from the "ex-Springer" side of the merger and makes no effort to hide their agenda of decommissioning everything Nature brought to the merger.

A lot of the upper management is based in Europe, so there's a chance your direct manager will have no oversight on a day-to-day basis. This would be problematic on its own, but the situation is further complicated by the fact that (at the editor level) Springer isn't exactly attracting the best or the brightest. This creates a perfect environment for your manager to be incompetent and/or absuive. If you take your concerns to Springer's HR, they will just encourage you to leave the company. The most you can expect in terms of employee retention is a little half-hearted gas lighting geared toward making you accept more abuse.