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Penguin Random House reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,191 total reviews)
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Nihar Malaviya

83% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Penguin Random House has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,191 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Penguin Random House employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Sep 26, 2023
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Pros

Benefits and time off are about it.

Cons

Toxic upper management. Group Leaders are over worked and underpaid. Upper management worries too much about fixing things that aren't even broken & then proceeds to neglect actual issues that should be focused on instead. They will ask for employee feedback but 99% of the time they already have a decision made about things before even asking the employees. You have to be a yes man with no back bone to make it here. Say yes to every single command that comes down the pipeline, and don’t dare have a different opinion about how something should be done—it will be immediately shot down. Upper management absolutely will not take your job knowledge into account so preventative issues occur. then you, who warned them about potential issues are expected to fix whatever problem you were attempting to prevent in the first place. but once again, they wouldn’t listen. Rinse & repeat until retirement.

2.0
Sep 21, 2023
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Pros

Work life balance is good Free books Solid benefits People are generally nice

Cons

Getting promoted is almost impossible There's a revolving door of lower level employees and CEO's don't seem to care about them at all It's frustrating hearing about a growth mindset when junior employees can barely affor to pay their rent

3.0
Apr 29, 2023

Publishing Sucks

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Pros

Books rock The people are fun Free reading material You will love the products you work on (especially if you're in children's books)

Cons

Pay is only compared to the next guy below you and when the next guy is owned by a conservative nut job you're always going to be comparing to a too-low salary and thus earning a too-low salary. DEI efforts are there, but they barely make a meaningful impact because they won't give money to the divisions. So much politics it's ridiculous.

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