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    R.R. Donnelley Reviews

    Updated September 19, 2017
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    1. "IT"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Doesn't Recommend
      Negative Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at R.R. Donnelley full-time

      Pros

      Nice coworkers to work with.

      Cons

      Horrible managers - they mandate overtime so they can collect big bonuses for themselves. Benefits for employees are the worst. It's a sweat shop.

    2. "An Alright Company"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at R.R. Donnelley full-time

      Pros

      Good Pay, Friendly people, Good supervisors, Good management, individual work

      Cons

      Slow, stressful, risky, Budget cuts, Will just walk you out

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    3. "Better Than Food Service"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Phoenix, AZ
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee in Phoenix, AZ
      Doesn't Recommend
      Positive Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I have been working at R.R. Donnelley full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Large corporation, so health benefits, paid vacation, and holiday pay come standard and can be gotten and are stable, as opposed to maybe working for a smaller business or a start-up, for instance. Shift work, so good for irregular schedules. As the title says, not food service and largely separated from face to face client interaction, so if you're in retail this would definitely be a step up and lower stress.

      Cons

      No training, no HR engagement, management is absent (if you're lucky) or wholly incompetent. Regardless, there is NO support. No sick time, pay seems to be lower than industry average, facilities are old and it shows. Chronic understaffing and asking people to work overtime or extra shifts. I'm on a (functionally) permanent 50+ hours a week.

      Advice to Management

      Get your managers to a retreat or something. Management is a skill, especially personnel management, and your people don't have it. They need training, BAD, and they also need HR support. And HR needs clearer policies that are actually enforced. This place is a lawsuit waiting to happen, especially because your actual good departments just split off to DFSC. Stop keeping your departments understaffed to make a buck, you're going to churn and burn people. Which, huh, might be why you don't invest in training...

    4. "Analyst"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at R.R. Donnelley full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Good company, long term, stable

      Cons

      None that I can think of

      Advice to Management

      Keep doing the right things. It's a good place to work

    5. "Good Company to Work !"

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      Current Employee - Senior Web Designer in Chennai (India)
      Current Employee - Senior Web Designer in Chennai (India)
      Recommends
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at R.R. Donnelley full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      1. Flexibility in Work
      2. Free Food, cab, beverage coupons
      3. Talented can get high values

      Cons

      1. Rotational shifts
      2. Less carrier Growth
      3. No Onsite Opportunities

    6. "A good company to settle down"

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      Former Employee - Senior Software Consultant in Thiruvananthapuram (India)
      Former Employee - Senior Software Consultant in Thiruvananthapuram (India)
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at R.R. Donnelley full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Employee centric policies
      No redundancy
      Ample amount of leaves - After one year, you would have 36 to 45 or so leaves
      Nice and friendly work culture and happy people around
      Decent hikes for nominal performers
      A beautiful development office in Trivandrum

      Cons

      Young to mainstream software industry. So, policies and strategies not aligned to a software company.
      Lack of inflow of more interesting project which could improve over time
      Very slow career progression
      Too laid back has its own disadvantages. Some of the supporting departments tend to act like incompetent government organisations
      Poor canteen facilities in the Pamba building
      Possible regional lobbying

      Advice to Management

      Need to get far sighted and spontaneous people on the top management for the software wing.
      Need to standardise recruitment.
      Should aggressively seek interesting projects from the parent facilities.
      Trivandrum unit needs more focus as there is lot of good talents whom could be utilised more.

    7. "Sales"

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      Current Employee - Sales Manager
      Current Employee - Sales Manager

      I have been working at R.R. Donnelley full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Good team, honest and hard working

      Cons

      Salary is not competitive and little upward movement

    8. "mail dept"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Las Vegas, NV
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee in Las Vegas, NV
      Doesn't Recommend

      I worked at R.R. Donnelley full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      worked independently and had my own area

      Cons

      having to deal with management

    9. "sinking"

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      Former Employee - N/A in Chicago, IL
      Former Employee - N/A in Chicago, IL
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      Disapproves of CEO

      I worked at R.R. Donnelley full-time (More than 10 years)

      Pros

      Largest printer in the world. Meet good people who move elsewhere and open other doors.

      Cons

      Down sizing or moving jobs to India. No raises, expensive benefits which keep rising. Poor middle management. Keep doing the same thing hoping it will work. No future planning. No new services.

      Advice to Management

      More oversight. Build more services for marketing. Hire qualified people to grow market share. Stop chasing only the big accounts, they don't grow fast enough.

    10. "Locally great, but corporate disconnected."

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at R.R. Donnelley full-time

      Pros

      Local team of people, supporting atmosphere.

      Cons

      Tech support, corporate issues, expensive health insurance.

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