An enthusiastic approach to publishing - Anonymous employee Sourcebooks Employee Review

5.0
Jul 10, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I’ve gained a lot of experience here that helped get even further in the company and my career. You get to work on a lot of different things, which is a great way to build up a nice portfolio and choose your career path. There’s no micromanagement and we can take as much time as we need for the work we do. Such an innovative company that I’m really proud to be a part of.

Cons

Everything I’ve experienced here has been a really positive experience so far. I’m really happy with my job and the people I’m working with.

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

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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