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A Great Corporate Culture Destroyed by a Merger - Anonymous employee Penguin Random House Employee Review

2.0
30 Mar 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

When I first came to Penguin, I was extremely happy with the culture. Everyone was working together and pulling in the same direction.

Cons

Once Random House took over, the Penguin way of doing everything went out the window, even in cases where it clearly outperformed the Random House way. Morale at Penguin is down throughout the company as Random House dismantles everything that made Penguin great.

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Pros

Great writing, Top tier production

Cons

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Pros

Great People, wonderful industry, books!

Cons

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