Unsustainable business - Anonymous employee Pottermore Employee Review

The people who work here are both kind and brilliant - which is a very tough combination to find. The culture is absolutely set by the CEO, who is inspiring, formidable, and open. The editorial, marketing and social media teams are extremely talented, and there's generally a great dedication to nurturing imagination, creativity, and new talent. And there's a really nice social vibe too - book clubs, boot camps (which I always think of going to but never do), birthday drinks, ice cream treats in the afternoons. It's a truly delightful place to work, and I've made some very great friends already. Beautiful offices, exciting projects, really great gender balance and heaps of women in leadership positions, which really means a lot to me. There are definitely role models and mentoring possibilities in the editorial and creative areas, and I imagine elsewhere. There's a really lovely, collaborative approach and ultimately, everyone here is in the business of imagination - so they're all a little bit magical.

Nah. I can't really think of anything, to be honest.

Free coffee, great office/location, good laughs at the managements expense, if you want to learn how badly a place is run then this is the location, work/life balance is great as there isn't much to do.....the odd free doughnut Colleagues were the best thing there, that trench warfare mentality got us through the day.

I had no clue as to what the company focus was, no career ladder or clear objective setting, managers that can't manage people, phone calls on the toilet, not AGILE even though they hark on about it, high staff turnover - its a contractors heaven, its a culture of secrets and brain farts. I'd say av life expectancy is around one year, core product is out of date and no one at a snr level knows what to do with it, amazingly poor staff get togetherness unless you liked a book club discussing the latest womens hour book of the month. Despite being a 'Magical' brand it left me with a feeling of being on blackpool pier watching a washed up great suprendo on a wet rainy day.