Love it! Great culture. Great people. Lots of opportunity. - Anonymous employee Sourcebooks Employee Review

5.0
Jun 21, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Been at Sourcebooks for over 5 years. It's been an amazing experience. The company has changed a lot as they've worked to evolve a new kind of book publishing business. If you love books, this is a great place to be. Lots of new ideas (some of which don't work...which can be frustrating). Lots of amazing people. The best job I've ever had. There's a tremendous amount of opportunity and I love that. My job has changed a lot as the company has tried new things and evolved in new ways.

Cons

This is a fast moving, growing business, which is really rare in the book business. I think sometimes people say they want change and want to grow, and actually don't. They want to do exactly what they've been doing in the same way they've been doing it. If that's you, this will not be a good fit.

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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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