HarperCollins reviews

3.5

58% would recommend to a friend

(449 total reviews)
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Brian Murray

66% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

HarperCollins has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 449 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The HarperCollins employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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449 reviews
3.0
Sep 23, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Working on amazing books and meeting fabulous authors!

Cons

Like many publishing companies, the pay is well below average for marketing roles when compared across industries in NYC.

3.0
Sep 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Good company to work at; supportive bosses

Cons

Long hours, hard to move up, low pay for assistants

4.0
Jul 27, 2019

Love it here

Recommend
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Pros

Can't really get fired!!! True story - over heard HR saying to managers that they cannot fire the employees. I realized that many of the teams have people that can't perform a lot of tasks (especially our finance teams), yet HR won't allow those employees to be fired. Manager's that acquired a team (not very bright people) where the team or new peoples were barely doing any work. Manager's are probably working 12 hour days, but HR team could care less about work production of the lower employees. There's people in finance, whom barely work and has taken weeks of vacation. I don't even think they come into work on time, let alone do much work. I've also started to be a little more relaxed about duties as HR pretty much allows us to be a little more relaxed. I stay a little late just to show that I'm "working"

Cons

Should be paid more! More vacation days! Not much opportunity to move up (but you get paid to do little work!)

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