Penguin Random House Operations Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
they seem open to feedback... i guess...
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
They need to understand that without the warehouse workers nothing gets done. They need to learn the simple lesson that, absent the miner, a gold mine is a hole in the ground.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
My Health Benefits through Anthem.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Management is disrespectful at the line level. Upoer management talks a good game, but line mananhers are rude and disrespectful. I would feel more positive if I were paid more and treated with respect
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We had a miserable year as people but one of the best years ever for the business (largely because employees absorbed many costs of the business in quarantine) and instead of investing in human capital they bought the competition.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
They treat me with respect.
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they are mostly very supportive, patient, and intelligent people who i learn a lot from
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Shared vision. Sense of mission.
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
i learn new skills often and personal/professional development are clearly important to management, yet promotions and growth are still extremely slow, largely due to the oligopoly of the book industry
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Encoursge big picture thinking; get employees to buy in to company mission and vision
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What did you like most about the interview process?
it was as informative for me as it was an appeal to be hired.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
working on a book that can make a real impact
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Safety safety safety. Management is leaving incompetent and dangerous lift operators on trucks for production, often overriding trainers' decsisions not to sign off. No post-accident drug testing. Known users/drinkers showing up under the influence and operating PIE
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What do you like best about your company?
We enable literacy around the world. What we do creates value for writers, artists, and creatives as well as the consumers of their creative product
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Compensation. Unionisation. Culture of respect. Clear paths to advancement.
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