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Good Stepping Stone - Associate Product Manager Penguin Random House Employee Review

3.0
May 14, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

As someone new to the field of product management, it was a good place to get my feet wet and learn skills in a relaxed environment, while also working with recognizable and impressive brands. It set me up for a great career trajectory.

Cons

They make it very easy to leave. I found little support from my superiors and was constantly feeling like I was underappreciated for the amount of work I was putting in. Raises and promotions are almost impossible to get, even after tripling your starting workload. Office politics and limited budgets made work stressful and projects hard to green light.

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