HarperCollins reviews

Low pay at entry level. Justified by HR as your entry level lack of experience. Catch-22 is should you ever move beyond entry to middle or come in at the middle, upper-management will not want to pay you for your experience. They will fix blame on digital or B&N as the reason,all while never offering to take a pay cut of their own. If you didn't negotiate hard before you were hired on salary, you won't move much beyond. Lack of communication leads to a heavy gossip environment. Hard to watch good hard working employees demoralized or neutered. Recently, several departments were terminated under the ruse that they could reapply for their jobs if they wanted them in NJ. We all wait to see how many of those dozens of employees are actually getting retained many with decades of experience and excellent performance reviews. If you make it more than 3 years and ask for a raise, be prepared to be told you are lucky to have a job.Your workspace will be the size of a bathroom stall at a midtown bar without the high walls and the nice soap.

Pay is the lowest of any NYC publishing house. Lateral movement very difficult -- if you start in production and want to switch into design, you're out of luck. Management is astoundingly out of touch. Sure, we're flushing your department and replacing you with new people we can pay an even lower salary, but here's a new coffee maker for the break room; wait, what do you *mean* morale is low?