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Penguin Random House reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(1,191 total reviews)
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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 Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
4.0
Oct 21, 2020

Amazing!

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Everyone is welcoming and the environment is lovely!

Cons

I had no complaints about working here!

4.0
Oct 17, 2020
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

PRH is the biggest publisher, so you take the good of massive size with the bad. For publishing, the entry level pay and benefits are good. Working from home during the pandemic was well-supported and the company never made us feel like we had to choose our jobs over our health. The big benefit for readers is access to the interior library of books and manuscripts.

Cons

It's easy to get overlooked in such a big company, if you don't have a good supportive manager. There's a definite change in culture among management and upper management, who don't know or have forgotten what it is like to live in small apartments in the city while they tend to live outside the city - during the pandemic it seemed they weren't aware that while managers often had home offices, lower level employees would quite possibly have to work from atop their beds in studio apartments. The company is also overwhelmingly white and diversity initiatives move painfully slow, and company culture is quick to offer kudos for any small steps but hesitant to recognize missteps. Its also easy to feel left out of the loop if you don't like going for drinks.

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