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Record Breaking Profits Are Great Use That Money To Hire More People - Anonymous employee Chronicle Books Employee Review

2.0
Mar 7, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Creative People Attractive Office Beautiful Books Generally nice people to work with

Cons

Low Pay (though this is typical for publishing) They don't fire bad bosses, even if they're incompetent, if they're "in" with the right people Overworked staff leads to burnout They're weirdly cheap about random things: i.e. They "close" the office for the week after Christmas but you have to either use your own vacation time or take the time unpaid. Most other publishers pay their employees for this time off. Plus they try to convince you that this is a good thing by putting a positive spin on it - 'Hey we're giving you time off at the holidays"

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Chronicle Books Response
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Thank you for your feedback. We heard from several employees about the Holiday break and, I'm happy to say, we have started offering it as a fully-paid holiday.

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Filled with intelligent, creative people who are proud of the product and work hard to make the company thrive.

Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The support staff themselves are supportive and will help with any questions you have. The books and games products are beautiful, and design really highlights their talents continuously.

Cons

Management doesn't seem to care about support staff (ie, assistants, coordinators) in sales and marketing, despite the vital role they play with managing processes. Often times leadership will stagnate support staff career growth and overload work for years until they may grant a marginal raise or promotion (that's rarely the case, unfortunately, as I mentioned before - high turnover!). With the laughable wages they grant support staff, there's burnout and division between leadership expectations and support work reality. Furthermore, the leadership is pretty poor overall. With high turnover, there's a lack of cohesion and purpose within the company. The office atmosphere seems to mimic this void of direction with the library-like silence on the floors and complete segmentation between other teams. If they tell you they're like a family, they are not telling the truth.

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