Description This Smith is far from anonymous. WH Smith (known simply as "WHSmith") is one of the UK's largest book and magazine sellers. The company's more than 600 high street stores sell reading materials, stationery, and movies. WHSmith also runs more than 560 travel shops in London and regional airports, railway stations, hospitals, and motorway service areas that offer selected newspapers, magazines, tobacco, and confectionery. Additionally, it operates the Internet site WHSmith Direct (the UK's second-largest online bookseller behind Amazon), and its Smiths News wholesale business is the largest magazine and newspaper distributor in the UK, supplying about 23,000 retailers daily.
WHSmith has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,507 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The WHSmith employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).
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Overall, 48% of employees would recommend working at WHSmith to a friend. This is based on 2,521 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
69% of job seekers rate their interview experience at WHSmith as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at WHSmith.