There is a reason there is high turnover, employees aren't valued or taken care of. - Anonymous employee Sourcebooks Employee Review

2.0
Feb 23, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

You receive a lot of responsibility right away, great for resume building.

Cons

Most people are eager and excited when they start at Sourcebooks, sadly this ends quickly after new employees realize introductory training here is absolutely terrible and the workloads can and will be unmanageable at times. This is normal at many companies but compensation packages should reflect the workload and responsibility level of the position, and many people struggle to make ends meet even if they are exemplary employees who go above and beyond for the company. There is very, very little flexibility from management if you are having unusual circumstances with family or health. It seems like management is surprised they have a revolving door and I'm not really sure why. Respect your hardworking employees and pay what they deserve and they won't leave your company. If you are a young professional looking for a springboard by all means accept a position here, just know most other recent hires start applying elsewhere quickly.

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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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