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Penguin Random House reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,189 total reviews)
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81% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Penguin Random House has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,189 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 19, 2017
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

- excellent benefits - encouraging teams - one of the best corporate cultures, they really want to invest in your development - one of the best learning teams that tries their best to help everyone as much as possible - great place to learn a lot of on the job skills - even at entry level there are a lot of opportunities to pitch in creative ideas and challenge yourself. - you can easily be a big fish in a small pond and pick up a lot of stretch projects - Creative environment - constantly learning from others - people willing to work together - wonderful work life balance - Great place if you want to launch your career, leave for other opportunities to move up faster + better salary, then maybe be a boomerang and come back.

Cons

- they can be a little spiteful when you leave the company, I never got a proper exit interview and know other colleagues with the same problem - they take advantage of your time but do not recognize or hint upward mobility. I personally felt something extreme had to happen in order to move up. -salaries could be better..... - it is great place to grab a lot of experience and take it somewhere else unless you are die hard publishing. Otherwise you will be overqualified for your role especially when you are in a small team.

4.0
Oct 17, 2017

Nice but cliquey

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Very colourful and vibrant office; has a pulp shelf offering free books

Cons

Very female-heavy staff working under mostly male management; office can feel very cliquey and unwelcoming, especially for freelancers

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