Description Chronicles of the boy wizard Harry Potter have lent a magical quality to Bloomsbury Publishing's bottom line. J.K. Rowling's mega-successful series has brought this small publisher to worldwide fame, but Bloomsbury also has other best-selling authors on its list, including Joanna Trollope, John Irving, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje. Bloomsbury also publishes non-fiction titles, including "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain, the famous-persons reference title "Who's Who", and the "Whitaker's Almanack", primarily through its A&C Black subsidiary. Outside London, the company has offices in New York, Berlin, and Sydney. Nigel Newton, formerly employed by Macmillan Publishers, founded Bloomsbury in 1986.
Bloomsbury has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 138 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bloomsbury employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).
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Overall, 55% of employees would recommend working at Bloomsbury to a friend. This is based on 139 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
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