Pros
Work/life balance. There is a decent balance between work and life though at times people will put off their own work and then it gets dropped on to other people to rush through the work. Benefits. The benefits package is pretty good so no really complaints in that department. Free coffee.
Cons
No professional growth. You cannot grow/advance within this company. Since the work/life balance is so relaxed good luck at getting promotions along with proper raises. One of the main reasons I see this happening is due to the lack of proper leadership. Even with the layoffs you’d think they would then readjust roles and salaries to fit but that isn’t the case. Alot of the employees wear multiple hats and are still expected to put out quality work along with meeting strict deadlines on their current salary (so motivation within the company just sucks). Lack of leadership. Since the new CEO took over the company has been seeing massive layoffs. Obviously while transitioning into a new media (“publishing to digital”) will take time and there will also be some casualties .Though after working there for over 5 years I can say that every year for the past 4 years there have been major layoffs. It’s a clear sign that they are struggling to come up with an actual solid plan for the future of the company. Instead they are selling off assets or firing a bunch of employees each year just to balance out on their overall budget. 5 years ago they were trying to transition from publishing to digital and now they are saying scratch digital content and are now trying to push into artificial intelligence...All those different types of media within a 5 year period. Good luck! Lack of middle management. Since top leadership lacks so does middle management. Like I previously stated there have been layoffs every year for the last 4 years (big layoffs). Each year after they let people go someone from middle management (who actually doesn’t know too much about the actual products under their own leadership) will send out a email OR might show up into the office to “rally” the left over employees. They will tell you how the work and employees are so important and will even go to the lengths of saying that Pearsons number one strength is their employees. Lack of transparency. Each year people are caught off guard when they get let go from the company. Sometimes lower management doesn’t even see the layoffs coming but with upper-middle management always blowing smoke it’s hard to actually see what the future of your employment is. So job security doesn’t exist within this company Lack of culture. Within 5 years of working at Pearson there have been maybe 1 or 2 happy hours. Team lunches, team happy hours, team off-site meet ups, and holiday parties are pretty much nonexistent within this company. Even at work you can tell it’s more of a corporate vibe in which it revolves around titles and not innovation. So team building doesn’t really exist. Lack of dedication. Within 5 years of working at Pearson on one product we never had a dedicated development team that only supported us. Hence why alot of their digital products are struggling to make money or be actual true innovation within digital education realm. So I’m not sure how Pearson is now going to all of a sudden jump into artificial intelligence when they can’t even have successful digital products (not sure how shareholders are letting this happen either). Also when I first started they didn’t even have the proper software to do your job (they didn’t even have the Adobe product line). Just lack of dedication throughout Pearson on multiple fronts.