Started as Intern (now we here) - Anonymous employee Elwin Street Productions Employee Review

Relatively easy to get compared to other entry level work in publishing. Will help you get in the door of the industry.

Elwin Street capitalizes off the current creative job market and churns through interns. There is a crazy turnover of interns (you can be fired with a 2 day notice period). Pretty much every consequent job interview I've had asks about working at Elwin Street and how bad it was. It's notorious and everyone has or knows someone who has had a bad experience. It is low-paid and based on freelance contracts, even for colleagues who've been there a year. High stress. No training period, just another junior colleague tasked with looking after you on top of their massive workload. However, you will learn a lot. You will get industry insight that you may not get at a larger, more comfortable company. Bias towards male staff/ hiring.

You can gain experience. But the cost is high – your self esteem and mental health.

Haphazard management style. Supervisors enjoy belittling their (young, recently graduated) employees. (One colleague was regularly in tears after constant abuse). Everyone is on a freelance, 0 hours contract, and can be fired with only three days notice. People were fired, then re-hired, according to the whims of management. Employees were frequently working overtime and there was a constant environment of extreme stress. It's overall an unpleasant environment to work in, one that feeds on the terrible state of the current job market. Additionally, the office is a house that is occasionally rented as an Air B&B, meaning that staff have to vacate at unpredictable hours. Given the 0 hour contracts, this meant losing valuable income at random times.