Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Employee Reviews
Out of 42 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt employee reviews, 63% were positive. The remaining 37% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Houghton Mifflin Harcourt improve their work culture.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
They all contribute to each others successes.
always striving to improve and change things when they dont work.
The way that they give warnings
Everyone at HMH is a team member, we can easily talk to our CEO if that is needed!
Recognition of current problems and focus on moving forward. Setting a clear vision focused on impact on students.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Need to get better at Everything
2-way communication; manage change better; be more sophisticated and dtrategic about cutting costs (do layoffs more strategically).
Actually communicating with ALL employees and making us feel like stakeholders in the direction of the company.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Decent PTO that's fairly easy to use.
Generous time off and sick time policy
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Comp is fine; benefits are weak.
Its not the best in the world which is what I strive for.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Good people (I think); just burnt out and suspicious of others.
Hard workers and good people.
The support and the friendly way we help each other
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Literally all I do is attend meetings. Sometimes we have meetings to plan future meetings.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
great people, great customers. very welcoming "family" type environment, easy movement to higher position
The effective communication and the need to have happy customers
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Valuing not inly 'what'' is contibuted but 'how' staff are expected to act. Leadership needs model company values, or stop pretenfing that they matter.
Upper management should model how important our customers are and have a service attitude. Nothing positive will happen if it doesn't start at the top. Upper management appears to focus on their careers and power versus delivering the best product and services we can for our customers.
Most people are unhappy .
What did you like most about the interview process?
The personal interview with the manager.
It was straightforward and the HR recruiter communicated with me often.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Better communication, behavioral interviewing to demonstrate their committment to unbiased hiring.
What makes you most happy at work?
Remote work and ERGs are great.
The work I do with colleagues and district teachers and admin.
training new people, assisting in day to day operations
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Please reference the previous comments.
Multiple rounds of layoffs and good people leaving for other opportunities takes a toll on morale. Pay us more and we'll stay.
What do you like best about your company?
Work at home options, benefits, vacation/holidays, mission
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Flatten management/solidify decision making. We've been floundering.