Predatory, Horrible Management, Just Run - Production Editor Sourcebooks Employee Review

1.0
May 6, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. I still have anxiety and panic dreams about this toxic place. If you manage to stay on long enough, you can say you were lucky enough to work there and get "genuine" publishing experience on your resume.

Cons

If you can think of one, it applies to Sourcebooks. Management will never offer support and throw you under the bus first chance they get to save their own skins. Very clique-ish and high school. If you're in with the cool kids, awesome. If not, you're a loner and will be ostracized. Training was non-existent. They threw you in head first and expect perfection and tolerate nothing. Learning curve is steep. Pay was laughable. Benefits even more so. HR turnover was high. Red flags everywhere. Dom wants to play with the big boys of the NY publishers and acts like it. She's admirable, but incredibly flakey. Tone and message can flip on a dime. The lack of diversity was staggering.

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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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