Good experience, poor management - Anonymous employee Story Terrace Employee Review

3.0
20 Dec 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Ownership of your own projects, ability to expand skills, great colleagues

Cons

The company is constantly changing, including the job descriptions of the roles e.g. Project Editor has had pretty much all editorial responsibility stripped from it. A lot of the upper management aren't familiar with the book making process, so the changes they make don't make sense. There's also a very high turnover rate of staff, and a high workload. If you're ok with constantly being in flux, and potentially having your job change from what it started as, you'll enjoy it. If you don't want those things, look elsewhere

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Story Terrace Response
3y
Thank you for the feedback. Based on previous internal employee feedback, management acknowledges that indeed there are a lot of process changes and they actively work to communicate those better. In a startup environment, rapid changes unfortunately are inevitable. It also means that your role may evolve into something different as the company evolves. All current editorial managers - but 1 - started working as project editors at StoryTerrace and have been promoted internally. We trust that they know the processes very well and this will only help further build the editorial team's success. StoryTerrace has a culture that encourages feedback from all stakeholders and management aims to be as transparent as possible. More than in other companies, all changes are widely discussed and explained. It's a tough balance to get right — responding to feedback vs creating too much change — and we are always aiming to improve when we miss the mark. The focus is always to make things better for our editorial team, the customer experience and the business, so that we can achieve our vision of capturing thousands of life stories in beautiful books. Great colleagues is lovely to hear!

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Always interesting authors to work with is the best way I can describe working with StoryTerrace. Plus, a great team of support throughout the writing process.

Cons

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Thank you for your thoughtful feedback! We're glad to hear that you enjoy working with the authors and find the team supportive. We truly appreciate your input on the editing experience as well. We understand that the current editing tools can sometimes be limiting, and we’ll take your suggestion into consideration as we continue to improve our platform. We’re always looking for ways to enhance the user experience, and your feedback is invaluable. Thanks again for sharing!
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Story Terrace Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback, both the pros and the cons!
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