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Penguin Random House reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,192 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 1,192 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 Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Nov 3, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent authors and books. Staff is intelligent and committed and the work is interesting.

Cons

Very political and some directors or managers are better than others. Pay is low.

3.0
Oct 22, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits package and vacation days, free books, people are generally great.

Cons

Pretty cliquey, HR is a joke, continuous lay-offs since I've worked there, often workload is split between remaining team members, advancement is difficult.

4.0
Oct 13, 2015

Incredible Benefit package

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Family life is of the utmost importance to this company. PTO is outstanding and includes several holidays.

Cons

The pay will only be sufficient to be a secondary income.

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