Pros
> Editorial-level employees are experienced, friendly, and care about both their work and their teams. > Great brand name with a rich history. > Old guard still dearly holds high editorial standards.
Cons
> Multiple acquisitions in a short time have stripped a lot of institutional knowledge, history, and morale. > Current parent company (Future) is downright inept. They're called a "serial acquirer," but their experience in M&A hasn't evolved into skill at it. Incompetent at folding in new assets. Benefits transition was haphazard and resulted in de facto pay cuts for most involved. Pay for contractors and freelancers suffered numerous delays for months. Communications are atrocious. They never know who to include on important updates. Directions are always unclear. Procedures documentation is sparse, and what exists is extremely lacking. > Future also suffers severe Dunning-Kruger effect. Despite their shortcomings, they drip with confidence, and they severely misestimate the importance of institutional and subject-matter knowledge. > Future's CEO -- which, correction to Glassdoor, Knight Kiplinger is no longer CEO at Kiplinger -- is a nightmare. A micromanager with no equal. A for-instance: Numerous superiors communicated that the CEO personally reviews all pay raises; future has ~2,400 employees at last count. The CEO also sends a regular update to employees in which she frequently demonstrates that she's completely disconnected from any human earning a sub-seven-digit salary. > Begrudging interest, at best, in filling open positions. > All of the above resulted in numerous defections within a relatively short time after the acquisition.