Great company with tons of growth opportunities - Anonymous employee Sourcebooks Employee Review

5.0
Jun 28, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Best place I've ever worked. Here's some of what I like: - Innovative company - Great team environment - Passionate people - Interesting projects - Small company so you can make an impact - Chances to develop your own "career" - Clear and transparent company goals Having worked for a number other companies, I just wanted to say how refreshing it is to have a company that speaks to its employees, and asks for feedback, and then makes changes. This dialogue isn't typical and I really appreciate it. For example, we have a meeting every couple of months to talk about how the company is doing, what we're all working on together and the accomplishments we've had (it's called Breakthrough). You can see the opportunities we've created for ourselves and the plans we have for where we want to go in the future.

Cons

There is a lot of change in the book industry now, which means constant change trying to keep up with new processes, books, programs, departments, etc. This can be a little overwhelming for a new-hire, but you get used to going with the flow as you become more familiar with your position and working with your team.

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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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