Penguin Random House Careers and Employment

How to succeed and progress is very opaque - though this seems to be an industry-wide problem. You can be told in a performance review that you are brilliant and couldn't have done anything better, but still not be considered for a promotion.

Project Manager in Frating, Essex

on 8 February 2022

Toxic culture and zero progression

As a company they pride themselves on being "progressive" and understanding but the culture in the business is incredibly toxic and "woke". HR is non-existent and they do not care about employee wellbeing with myself and several members of the team being signed off with depression/stress throughout my 3 years at the company. Everyone talks about how busy they are yet nothing ever gets done.

Editorial Assistant in Pimlico, Greater London

on 20 January 2022

An inspiring and fun place to work

A great place to start a career in publishing with lots of opportunity to progress. A great company culture which means you will make a lot of friends. Can be competitive and stressful but rewarding too.

IT Technician in London, Greater London

on 11 January 2022

Great place to work and very inclusive at all sites

It's a great place to work, with lots of benefits and very inclusive atmosphere at all sites as far as I can tell. Subsidised food and drink, relaxed atmosphere where possible and when not working on target driven projectsCould be better structured management wise, with more people to do the work, but this is the same at most places.Since the pandemic the company has shifted and does now meet the work life balance they had always said they had. Opportunities don't come up as much as hoped, and limited training scope...but not the worst by any means.

Facilities Assistant (Post/Reprographics) in London

on 4 November 2021

Fun

Working environment was good I can not complain people are very friendly. Workload is heavy for the amount of people working for there. Apart from all that it’s a very busy environment yet friendly

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