R.R. Donnelley reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(3,884 total reviews)

Thomas J. Quinlan, III

56% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

R.R. Donnelley has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 3,884 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The R.R. Donnelley 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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4K reviews
2.0
Nov 3, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

An extremely large organization with range of location availability and international reach. Had a great healthcare system in 2007, great 401k matching and vesting, but not anymore, see below.

Cons

Employees are not looked at as individuals. There is virtually zero chance for career progression. RRDs employs a sales management attitude not a strategic management one. The corporate culture advocates saying "yes" to clients without questioning how to strategically fulfill the request. As of 2008, due to the average age group of RRD's core employees and their poor overall general health including higher than average exposure to hazardous working environments in the print industry, all RRD employees have been subjected to higher than average health insurance premiums. In 2008 HR policies were introduced stipulating that over five recorded sick instances annually may be grounds for dismissal. Insufficient paid time off for new or existing employees. While I was managing a group, some employees PTO days were actually reduced to align with new nationwide PTO allocation policies.

1.0
Sep 29, 2025

Stay Away

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There's nothing good to say about this place, truly. I've never had an employer I could say nothing good about, until now.

Cons

They have no culture, they do not care about the well-being of their employees, they have no growth structure for their employees to move up from where they are now. They don't do any surveys to see how people feel about the company to make improvements. Their idea of something for company culture was to watch a higher up grill up lunch at home, and then share his recipe over a virtual meeting... The company constantly takes away tools every month that allowed us to do our jobs effectively, making it harder and harder to get work done with an already reduced workforce, but the expectations remain the same, with less people, and worse tools. If you value your sanity and mental health, DO NOT work for this place.

1.0
May 31, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Weekly pay, some management cares

Cons

Expect to work yourself into burnout if you’re on a busy team, and get minimal recognition for going above and beyond. They claim to be actively promoting from within, but brand new outside hires made up the majority of the last team I worked with, and when they do promote from within they make some very strange choices that leave people feeling lied to or led on. The HR department is essentially useless and will do nothing to actually resolve complaints, multiple people had complaints in against the main HR rep on site and nothing ever came of them despite her incredibly unprofessional and nasty way of dealing with people. Management is toxic and plays favorites. They are not entirely clear on PTO and sick time policies (took almost two years for them to explain that even if you have PTO available it doesn’t mean you actually accrued the time and will have to pay it back if you quit) and the last time I was expected to acknowledge team policy, the links to additional information led to ‘you are not authorized to access this document’ errors. They went from allowing the clients to dictate in-office days (which was hit or miss anyway) to mandating 3 days a week in office, but there are teams that require 5 days a week despite this being billed as a hybrid job. When I was hired, it was almost entirely remote so switching to 3 days a week was a huge impact on my expenses as gas prices are ridiculous in Phoenix. On top of this, parking is difficult when there are so many people in office, the internet is so overloaded that it runs slower there than at my house, and they dumped everyone from the free WIFI without saying anything because they couldn’t keep up with the bandwidth needed to accommodate that many people on site at once. No additional compensation was offered to cover the additional expenses associated with commuting. Raises are not worth the wait and the base pay is insultingly low, especially compared to competitors. Communication is absolute garbage and nobody knows what’s going on most of the time. The training department is still being created and the current training model is abysmal (no offense to the current trainer, she is doing her best and she is good at explaining things but a 1-2 week crash course is not sufficient to get people ready for the job and they know it but put her in that position anyway) and they put the vast majority of responsibility for training on the teams that receive new hires. One of the managers I worked with expected me to train the two new hires she had brought on because she didn’t know how to do the job whatsoever and actually left the new hires all alone for the majority of their shift in the first week they were there because she ‘forgot’ they were there. Overall, I loved working here while I was a Document Specialist and for a good amount of the time I was a Workflow Coordinator, but the numerous issues this company has began to pile up and became unmanageable.

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