Sourcebooks Reviews

Low pay, unrealistically high expectations. Upper management is completely out of touch with operational/systemic workloads. CEO incredibly patronizing and always grandstanding. Pretends she's of a different/more compassionate breed but in the end she's still shoving AI down our throats, overworking her employees , but childishly demanding our adoration. Company is happy to add flashy, useless positions and let the operational employees work themselves to the bone. You have to drink the Kool aid to go anywhere her, or at least better get ready to fake it.

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.