In hindsight, even worse. The reviews are right. - Editorial Sourcebooks Employee Review

1.0
May 8, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Books. Experience. The knowledge that if you make it through there, you can take on anything. Because the culture here is close to as bad as it gets.

Cons

The absolute worst culture based on CEO's ego and grinding employees into nubs. You are not valued. You are to be used. And you are to be discarded -- if you don't get the chance to get out first. Luckily, I got out. When you leave, you are dead to them. It doesn't matter what knowledge or talent you have -- if you leave the cult, you are not worthy of another thought or kind word. Now that I have the perspective of working somewhere that values people as people and has their personal growth in mind -- Sourcebooks looks even worse in hindsight. And it was B-A-D when I was there. 75% turnover in one year alone.

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5.0
Jun 20, 2025
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Pros

Incredible managers, great team, genuine openness to growth and learning, meaningful work

Cons

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1.0
Apr 20, 2026
Recommend
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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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