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Penguin Random House

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Dying industry, dysfunctional culture, job insecurity - Anonymous employee Penguin Random House Employee Review

2.0
Mar 8, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great products, easy to be enthusiastic about them

Cons

The industry is a dinosaur, lots of literary snobs in publishing team so anyone outside publishing is a second class citizen. Uncomfortable marriage between Penguin and Random house, lots of politics and a CEO who was in the right l,ace at the right time but shouldn’t be in that job. Restructuring is never far away so a constant sense of insecurity. UK and US arms of company is where the action is, not Australia.

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Cons

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