Former employees have started a support group, yes it’s that bad - Anonymous employee Sourcebooks Employee Review

1.0
Oct 20, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice people work here Free employee book sale and you get to meet authors

Cons

How much time do you have? The CEO is unstable and she has to be talked off a ledge of some kind daily. Her upper management knows it and even joke about it. They will tell her she is not the problem to make her feel better about herself. Everyone is overworked and most are underpaid. They hire more people to focus on sales and getting books to print as quickly as possible. But not to help ease the burden of the people who work there. They disguise toxicity as innovation. They do not care about your mental health, in fact people have left there to take care of their mental health. Books change lives alright, they cause PTSD after working here.

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Cons

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1.0
Apr 20, 2026
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Pros

In hindsight, I'm not sure if there were any apart from some friendly coworkers.

Cons

I infuriatingly see promotions handed out left and right via LinkedIn, but just know that actually being someone to get to that level means literally grovelling and being lucky enough to be in the good graces of the egotistical CEO. Upper management brown-noses her as their main job, and they will prevent you from any upward mobility if you're not one of her favorites (which seems to be picked based on how much you kiss up to her, and if you keep your own opinions to yourself, and other factors entirely unrelated to your actual performance). Absolutely criminally high monthly healthcare premiums, paired with insanely high deductibles, bare-minimum PTO, and mat leave. HR is a joke and not one HR employee seems to last very long. Salaries are abysmal, even by publishing standards. Most books acquired are bottom-of-the-barrel since they don't pay most of their authors much, and they have to be edited within an inch of their lives to be readable and marketable. I left the industry after this company and have never been happier.

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