HarperCollins reviews

This company, particularly the Nashville/Gran Rapids branches, are just known for churning and burning through their marketing and editorial staff. Get the experience you need but be prepared to always have other options since the business units are all siloed and many are toxic. HR is always underwater so they don’t really serve a purpose for the main employees. The discussion of career growth is frowned upon and those promoted are usually the most incompetent. I was realigned under someone with zero managerial (not to mention life) experience and it made myself and the rest of our group absolutely miserable. So many former employees who have left are thriving in their new endeavors and have stated that they would never return to that toxic company. Which is sad because it could be so much better but has poor leadership from the top down.

Once my direct supervisor left, I was supervised by their former manager, who was incompetent and petty. I was expected to take on more responsibilities without a promotion or commensurate raise in pay. I was repeatedly blocked from pursuing other lateral and vertical moves within the company. This is true everywhere in publishing, but the pay for this role was well below market rates, and well below what my direct supervisor advocated for paying me. Roles at HCCP have rate limits, and you can't make over $40K as a Marketing Associate, even if your work is deserving of it. They also handled the transition to remote work poorly: only a measly $500 stipend and no raises for the 2020 fiscal year--despite the company overall having an extremely profitable year. I got basically the same role elsewhere (not in publishing) with a significant increase in salary, more time off, more opportunity for advancement, and a less demoralizing and toxic work environment at a fully remote company.